Title
Mount Otowa moon - Bright God Tamura, from the series One hundred aspects of the moon
June 1886
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- Otawayama no tsuki - Tamura Myōjin
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- June 1886
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodblock; ōban
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 26.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 258.2012.35
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Works in the collection
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About
This print illustrates a scene in the nō play 'Tamura'. Three itinerant priests meet a man sweeping fallen cherry petals as they visit the Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto. The man reveals himself as the ghost of Sakanoe no Tamuramaro, who was a famous general of the later Nara period (710–94). Sakanoue waged campaigns against the Ebisu, the indigenous people of northern and eastern Japan, and was deified as the Shinto god Tamura Myōjin after his death in 811. It is said Tamura assisted the priest Enchin in the founding of Kiyomizu temple on Mount Otowa.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Theatre of dreams, theatre of play: no and kyogen in Japan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Jun 2014–14 Sep 2014
Yoshitoshi: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2016–20 Nov 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Yuriko Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi Tsuki hyakushi (Yoshitoshi’s One hundred aspects of the moon), Tokyo, 2010. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One hundred aspects of the moon, Seattle, 1992, (colour illus.). cat.no.35; Another edition was reproduced
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Chris UHLENBECK, Yoshitoshi: masterpieces from the Ed Freis collection, Leiden, 2011, 135-136. General reference; Another edition was reproduced
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