Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 59110
Thunder God Michizane - Kokoku Niju-shi Ko
- Artist / 作者
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi月岡芳年
- Date / 年代
- 1895
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / artelino
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 671 × 1000 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Artelino
- Published by / 公開者
- 朝倉レン
- Rights / 権利
- All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
- Attribution / 表記
- Artelino
Catalog note / 解説
"Kokoku Niju-shi Ko" (Twenty-four Examples of Filial Children in Japan) An aristocrat, Sugawara Michizane, who was a renowned poet and calligrapher in the Heian Court. He was later involved in the court intrigue and banished to the southern island, Kyushu. The legend said that his angry spirit became the thunder and strike the imperial court in Kyoto. Since then, he was enshrined as the guardian god of scholarship and literature.
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