Moon of the Red Cliffs

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Moon of the Red Cliffs

(Sekiheki no tsuki)

1889
Two Chinese scholars and their oarsman relax in a boat by moonlight.  The Red Cliffs on the Yangtze River were the subject of a long, famous ode composed in 1082 by the Chinese poet Su Shi.

 

 

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