Moon of pure snow at Asano river - Chikako, the filial daughter, from the series One hundred aspects of the moon

This print depicts the suicide of Chikako, who in the mid 1850s sacrificed her life in a vain attempt to secure her father’s release from prison. Her father Zeniya Gohei was a wealthy shipbuilder and entrepreneur who had been imprisoned after fishermen violently opposed his scheme to fill in a lake and turn it into rice fields.