Mount Otowa Moon - Tamura Myōjin (Otowayama tsuki -- Tamura myōjin (音羽山月 田村明神))

Mount Otowa Moon - Tamura Myōjin (Otowayama tsuki -- Tamura myōjin (音羽山月 田村明神))

This design is taken from a Noh-play called Tamura. According to the Lavenberg Print Collection, three itinerant monks visit the Kiyomizu Temple on a moonlit night in Spring. A youth appears and begins to sweep away fallen cherry blossoms with a broom. The monks ask him about the history of the temple, he answers, and then briefly disappears. A local commoner comes on the stage and tells them that the youth must have been the ghost of Sakanoe no Tamuramaro, who was a famous general of the later Nara period (710-794).

Akiyama Buemon (秋山武右衛門) (Firm: Kokkeido 滑稽堂) (1868-1900). Block Cutter: Yamamoto (山本)

1886 (Meiji 19)

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyaku sugata (月百姿))

print (medium), woodblock (technique), paper (material), 15 x 10 inches (dimensions)

Japanese

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2019.0.16

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