the Moon's 4 strings

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The moon’s four strings

(Tsuki no yotsu no o)

 

August 1891
The blind musician tuning a string on his lute is Semimaru, a 10th-century poet of noble birth who retired from the Imperial Court to live alone on Mt. Ausaka near Kyoto.

 

 

 

LITERATURE, MYTH AND MUSICX 

 

   

 

Taiso Yoshitoshi

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