Chikubushima moon

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Chikubushima moon 

(Chikubushima no tsuki)

March 1886

Taira no Tsunemasa visited the shrine of the goddess Benten on Chikubu Island one evening in the 1180s and played the lute so beautifully that the goddess appeared.  He may also have had a premonition of his death, which would come in battle soon afterwards.

 

 

  

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