Artist: Mizuno Toshikata
Title: Tango no Tsubone
Date: 1890.
Details & Prices: Mizuno Toshikata: Tango no Tsubone - Artelino
Source:
artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
"Kyodo Risshi no Motoi" (Heroes and heroines who have been regarded as standards of moral leadership and success). Tango no Tsubone is writing the last poem before being beheaded by a samurai. He was very moved by her poem and he let her go. She and her child later became the founders of the powerful Shimazu clan in the southern Kyushu island.
