Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 85779

Lonely House - Gekko's Essay

Artist / 作者: Gekko尾形月耕
Date / 年代: 1896
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / artelino
Digital record / 画像記録: 616 × 900 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Artelino
Published by / 公開者: 白石カナ
Rights / 権利: All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
Attribution / 表記: Artelino

Catalog note / 解説

"Gekko Zuihitsu" (Gekko's Essay). "Asajigahara Hitotsu-ya" The legend said that an old woman served a lord who had a strange disease. The only cure was the blood of children born in a certain month. The woman roamed the country side killing children to obtain blood for her lord. When he had recovered, she confessed how she obtained the cure and was pardoned. In this dramatisation, she is polishing her knife to kill the victim. The messenger of Kannon (The Goddess of Mercy) is watching her.

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