Catalog record · 目録番号 62130
Samurai and Globeflower - Setsu Getsu Ka
Catalog note / 解説
From the series, "Setsu Getsu Ka" (Snow Flower Moon), one of Chikanobu's best series. "Musashi; Flower". Lord of Edo Castle, Ohta Dokan was hunting with falcon at Takada. A sudden rain shower started. He went to a village house nearby to borrow a straw raincoat. The girl of the house presented him only a branch of Japanese globeflowers without saying anything. Later, he was told that the flower suggested an old poem which meant that she did not have a straw raincoat. Dokan shamed that he did not know the poem, and he started learning the old waka poems.
Image record / 画像情報
Artelino · 1884. · artelino
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