Catalog record · 目録番号 59965

The Depravity of Seigen

Artist / 作者: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi月岡芳年
Date / 年代: 1889
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / robynbuntin
Digital image / 画像: 504 × 364 px
Published by / 公開者: 水野ナギ

Catalog note / 解説

This scene is from a play entitled, The Cherry Princess. The princess is so beautiful that the monk Seigen from the Kiyomizu temple falls desperately in love with her. When he is rejected, he becomes insane and walks around with a kimono embroidered with cherry blossoms, calling out her name. He is excommunicated from the temple and eventually starves to death. Framed with acid-free and ultraviolet filtering materials.

Image record / 画像情報

ROBYNBUNTIN · 1889 · robynbuntin

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