Artist: Toyohara Chikanobu
Title: Sisters - Azuma Nishiki Chuya Kurabe
Date: 1886.
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Description:
"Azuma Nishiki Chuya Kurabe" (Edo Embroidery Pictures, Comparison of Day and NTwo sisters, Gigyoku and Gijo, were beautiful dancers in Gion. They were mistress of Taira Koyomori. But after a while, they were disillusioned. They wrote a farewell poem on shoji screen and became nuns in the Sagi Mountains. .
