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Details
- Alternative title
- Sagano no tsuki
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- 1891
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodblock; ōban
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 26.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 258.2012.99
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Works in the collection
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About
Emperor Takakura was infatuated with the beautiful Kogō no Tsubone, who served his wife, Empress Kenreimonin. Kenreimonin felt if Kogō had a son by her husband the child could be a risk to the throne. The empress gave orders to poison Kogō, so she ran away. The emperor was so upset that he ordered that Kogō be found. The courtier and flute player Nakakuni, who had performed with Kogō – a brilliant ‘koto’ (zither) player – rode on his horse around the countryside looking for her. Here, in this bright moonlit scene, Nakakuni is playing the song 'Sōfuren' (‘love for the husband’) on his flute. He finds her as she responds to his tune on her 'koto'. She ultimately returned to the emperor, had a child that was a girl, and was sent away to become a nun.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Yoshitoshi: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2016–20 Nov 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Yuriko Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi Tsuki hyakushi (Yoshitoshi’s One hundred aspects of the moon), Tokyo, 2010. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One hundred aspects of the moon, Seattle, 1992, (colour illus.). cat.no.99; Another edition was reproduced
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Chris UHLENBECK, Yoshitoshi: masterpieces from the Ed Freis collection, Leiden, 2011, 135-136. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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