Tsuki Hyakushi – Mountain Moon After Rain

Artist

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Series

100 Aspects of the Moon

Title

Tsuki Hyakushi – Mountain Moon After Rain

Year

1885

Condition

Excellent condition

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.

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