Japanese Print "Cleaners - Azuma Nishiki Chuya Kurabe" by Toyohara Chikanobu
Artist:Toyohara Chikanobu
Title:Cleaners - Azuma Nishiki Chuya Kurabe
Date:1886.
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Source:artelino - Japanese Prints
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"Azuma Nishiki Chuya Kurabe" (Edo Embroidery Pictures, Comparison of Day and Night). Minamoto Raiko and his famed Four Retainers were on the way to the hideout of robber group in Mt.Oh'e. They encountered two ladies washing clothes and asked for the direction. They killed the head of the group, monsterous Shuten Doji, and eradicated the robber group which had been terrorising the citizens around.
