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Cloth-beating moon (Kinuta no tsuki)
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| April 1890 | ||
| The woman pounding cloth on a fulling block is the heroine of a Noh play. Her husband has been long absent, so her maidservant, Yugiri, tries to console her by bringing in a mortar. The wife strikes the block throughout the night hoping that the sound will reach him in the distance and hasten his return. The idea is based on a Tang dynasty Chinese poem in which the sound of cloth being beaten by his wife reaches the ears of a man far from home. |
