Gojo bridge moon

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Gojo Bridge moon  (Gojobashi no tsuki)

April 1888

Ushiwaka (1159-1189) leaps high into the air and throws a fan at his attacker, the warrior-priest Benkei, on Gojo Bridge in Kyoto.  Ushiwaka later became the legendary General Minamoto no Yoshitsune.

 

 

  

THE WARRIOR X

 

Taiso Yoshitoshi

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