Title : Tango no Tsubone

Artist : Mizuno Toshikata

Date : 1890.

Details : Mizuno Toshikata: Tango no Tsubone - Artelino

Source : artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description : "Kyodo Risshi no Motoi" (Heroes and heroines who have been regarded as standards of moral leadership and success). Tango no Tsubone is writing the last poem before being beheaded by a samurai. He was very moved by her poem and he let her go. She and her child later became the founders of the powerful Shimazu clan in the southern Kyushu island.

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