Mt. Yoshino midnight moon

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Mount Yoshino midnight-moon (Yoshinoyama yowa no tsuki)

January 1886

Iga no Tsubone, a court lady, exorcises the spirit of the courtier Sasaki Kiyotaka during an eclipse.  Kiyotaka, an adviser to Emperor Go-Daigo, committed suicide in 1333 and his angry spirit haunted the Emperor’s court in the Yoshino Mountains.

 

 

 

 

 

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Taiso Yoshitoshi

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