Japanese Print "Mount Otowa Moon - Bright God Tamura # 35" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Artist:Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title:Mount Otowa Moon - Bright God Tamura # 35
Date:1886.
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Source:artelino - Japanese Prints
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"Tsuki Hyakushi; Otowayama no Tsuki - Tamura Myojin" (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon; Mt. Otawa Moon - Bright God Tamura) Sakanoe no Tamuramaro was a general who had lead successful campaigns against the enemies of the emperor in the Nara period. After his death, he was enshrined as Bright God Tamura. Here, his gray ghostly image is depicted as an ancient warrior sweeping cherry blossoms from Kiyomizu temple in the background.