Japanese Print "Chang-E Ascending to the Moon" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Japanese Print "Chang-E Ascending to the Moon" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 月岡芳年 (Tsukioka Yoshitoshi)

Artist:Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Title:Chang-E Ascending to the Moon

Date:August 1885

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Source:Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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According to Chinese legend, the archer Hou Yi shot down nine of the ten suns whose combined heat threatened to destroy the earth. As a reward, the Queen Mother of the West gave Hou Yi an elixir of immortality. Hou Yi's wife, Chang-E, unwittingly drank the potion herself. Rising to the moon, she has live there ever since within the crystal walls of her "Cold Palace." During the eighth lunar cycle each year, when the Chinese believe that the moon is at its fullest, they make offerings to Chang-E in the form of small round cakes and sphere-shaped fruit. Although the story of Chang-E is not popular in Japan, Yoshitoshi drew upon the Chinese legend for this design.

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