Mount Otowa moon

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Mount Otowa moon (Otowayama no tsuki)

June 1886

Based on a scene from a Noh play, three itinerant priests meet a man sweeping fallen cherry petals as they visit Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto.  The man proves to be the spirit of the warrior Tamura Myojin, the deity of the mountain behind the temple.

 

 

  

THE WARRIOR X

 

Taiso Yoshitoshi

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