Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title: Tsuki Hyakushi - Mountain Moon After Rain
Date: 1885.
Details & Prices: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Tsuki Hyakushi - Mountain Moon After Rain - Artelino
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Description:
From the series "Tsuki Hyakushi" ("One Hundred Aspects of the Moon"); No. 9 : "Ugo no Sangetsu". Soga Goro Tokimune, one of the Soga Brothers, looks up the flying "hototogisu" (its cry was believed to call the spirits to the next world, a symbol of the transience of life) before his final battle.
