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Kitayama moon (Kitayama no tsuki) |
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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. |
LITERATURE, MYTH AND MUSICX