Kitayama moom

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Kitayama moon

(Kitayama no tsuki)

June 1886
Toyohara Sumiaki, a musician in the court of Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1500-1526), met two wolves as he was walking one night in the hills north of Kyoto.  He charmed them with the sound of his wooden flute and escaped unharmed.

 

 

  

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