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<title>Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints</title>
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<title>Chasing Bats</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As three bats / komori  circle in the evening sky, two boys try to touch them with bamboo sticks while their mother and baby brother look on. Bats have long been a symbol of good luck in Northeast Asia because the words in Chinese for "bat" and for "good [...]]]></description>
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<title>Dog: Kanda Myojin Shrine First Visit</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A family returns from the Shinto shrine of Kanda Myojin where they have received blessings for their children, including the baby wrapped in a purple cloak decorated with auspicious symbols. The young boy carries a packet of "1000 year candy" / chitose am[...]]]></description>
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<title>Courtesans with Koto and Shakuhachi</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Meiji period color woodblock print from the series "Snow, Moon, Flower," depicting a mother who goes insane after she heard her child was kidnapped.  She wanders along the Sumida river.  The local kids are informing her that her child might have been carr[...]]]></description>
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<title>Viewing iris flowers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Three women admire blooming irises from an outdoor porch or pavilion surrounded by a low railing. Two tasseled lanterns hang from the roof beams, and a trio of swallows flit through the air in the background.]]></description>
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<title>Composing in a poetry contest (uta awase)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Meiji period color woodblock triptych print depicting seven women in a room, engaged in various activities.  Part of a series of 40 scenes inside the women's quarters of the shogun's palace in Edo.]]></description>
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<title>Edo, Snow at Honjo, Matsumura's wife, Hayakawa Toemon's daughter and Motoji</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The wife of Matsumura and the daughter of Hayakawa have joined a night attack on the Honjo mansion of Kira Yoshinaka, the climax of a vendetta when the followers of Asano Naganori  sought revenge for the humiliation of Asano by Kira. Asano, Lord of Ako, w[...]]]></description>
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<title>Bird: Asakusa Rice Fields</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the 11th month, the Tori no Ichi Festival is held at the Hanamata Washi Daimyojin Shinto Shrine of the Buddhist temple of Chokoku-ji. An important image at the temple, popular with actors and courtesans, depicts Myoken, Bodhisattva of the North Pole St[...]]]></description>
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<title>Divine Prince Ugayafuki Aezu</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Princess Toyotama, daughter of the Dragon King of the Sea, gives birth to the Divine Prince Ugayafuki Aezu, by turning from her human form into a dragon.]]></description>
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<title>Edo, Flowers of Yoshiwara, the Courtesan Katsuragi, Fuwa Banzaemon and Nagoya</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To help her husband Nagoya Sanza, Iwahashi sold herself into prostitution, becoming a prestigious courtesan by the name of "Katsuragi." Despite her fame and fortune, she still loved Sanza and is shown here thinking of him as cherry blossoms fall outside h[...]]]></description>
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<title>Beauty with Book</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A young beauty looks away from the viewer, glancing back over her left shoulder. She wears a comb and a flowered hair ornament with a blue and white tassel in her hair and a ring on her left hand. Three layers of kimono are visible: a gray patterned outer[...]]]></description>
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<title>Blessings Inside</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[During the Setsubun / "Change of Season" festival held at the end of winter by the lunar calendar, mame-maki / "bean throwing" is accompanied by shouts of "Fuku wa uchi, oni wa soto" / "Good fortune in, demons out!" The beans are usually thrown out by a t[...]]]></description>
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<title>Courtesans of Kadoebiya, shakuhachi and hat</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Meiji period color woodblock print depicting women (courtesans) walking in the Nakanomachi at night.]]></description>
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<title>Akechi Mitsuhide</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although a trusted retainer of the warlord Oda Nobunaga (1510-1551), Akechi Mitsuhide (1528-1582) was enraged when Nobunaga murdered his mother. Mitsuhide attacked Nobunaga at the Kyoto temple of Honno-ji, setting it afire. Nobunaga reportedly committed s[...]]]></description>
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<title>Edo, Flowers of Ueno, Mt. Toei Cherry Blossoms Tying</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An elegantly dressed Yoshiwara courtesan looks on while a little boy, held by his mother, ties a poem sheet to a blossoming branch. A servant peeks from behind a broken umbrella, and two men dance in the background.]]></description>
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<title>Wife of Shimizu, Ueno</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Image of a woman holding onto a bull which is falling over the edge of a cliff; two men stand nearby, powerless.
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<title>Boshu, Flowers of Kominato, Lotus Pond, Myomeijiro, and wife Umechiyo</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A baby receives his first bath, with his fisherman father Myomeijiro holding a towel, his grandmother at the wooden tub and his mother Umechiyo recovering with a cup of tea. The child would become the Buddhist prelate Nichiren (1222-1282), whose miraculou[...]]]></description>
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<title>Children's Cock Fight</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[According to the inscription on the left side, this composition was originally a painting by Chikanobu that he entered in the Second Painting Competitive Exhibition / Dai ni Kaiga Kyoshinkai held in 1884. The work received the bronze prize and was purchas[...]]]></description>
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<title>Ceremonial Attire</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Meiji government official dressed in his Western style military uniform receives his cockaded hat from one female attendant while another holds his European style sword. The group stands in a Western style building, probably the home of this modern man.[...]]]></description>
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<title>Children Doing Origami</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Two children are conversing while folding origami cranes. They sit within a house, before a sliding door, overlooking a garden. To their left is a bamboo trellis and a large ornamental jar, and behind them a cluster of peonies is growing.  A women stands [...]]]></description>
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<title>Wife of Kusunoki Masashige</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The ten year old boy Kusunoki Masatsura (1326-48), following his father's defeat and death at the Battle of Minatogawa in 1336, considered committing suicide, but his mother stopped him, reminding him of his moral obligations to support the emperor and to[...]]]></description>
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<title>Cat Monster of Saga</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Nabeshima family, daimyo of Hizen Province, continued to be plagued by a cat monster (see Plates 34-35). According to legend, the mistress of the Lord of Saga Castle was killed by a cat monster that possessed her body and then slowly drained the Lord [...]]]></description>
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<title>Biography of Actor Bando Hikosaburo</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This short biography of the famed kabuki actor Bando Hikosaburo V (1832-1877) was written by the novelist Okamoto Kisen and illustrated by Chikanobu. Hikosaburo came from a family of carpenters living in the Asakusa area of Edo and was adopted in 1840 by [...]]]></description>
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<title>A Glimpse of Dignitaries Dancing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On the second floor of a Western-style building, probably the famous Rokumeikan, Japanese couples appear to be taking dancing lessons, accompanied by two pianists. The young people seem awkward in movement and intent in their expressions, concentrating on[...]]]></description>
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<title>Chikuzen, Flowers of Tsukushi, Kato Shigeuji, Lady Maki andLady Chidori</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,238</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kato Shigeuji, the military governor / daimyo of Chikuzen Province in northern Kyushu, became disillusioned with the sensual world and sought spiritual refuge on Mt. Koya, a monastic center on the main island of Honshu. Although he abandoned his family wh[...]]]></description>
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<title>Ainosuke of Inamoto-ro and Kan of Nakanocho</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The courtesan Ainosuke of the brothel Inamoto-ro is seated before a mirror at her dressing table, fixing her hair. Her cotton yukata with a wave pattern and water wheel design suggests she has just returned from the bath. On a nearby clothes rack hangs a [...]]]></description>
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<title>Emperor Wen (Kan Buntei) Nurses his Mother</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The 24 Paragons of Filial Piety depict the self-sacrificing behavior of twenty-four sons and daughters who when to extreme lengths to honor their parents, stepparents, grandparents, and in-laws.The upper panel depicts Kan no Buntei, second emperor of the [...]]]></description>
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<title>Dinglan (Teiran) Honors his Ancestors</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,286</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The book entitled "The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety" was written by the Chinese scholar Guo Jujing during the Yuan Dynasty. The book recounts the extremes to which twenty-four sons and daughters go to honor their elders. This type of print with tw[...]]]></description>
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<title>Han Gaozu and Zhangliang</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Three men in Chinese robes sit on a platform while two others with drawn swords stand before them. Gao of Han (commonly known as Gaozu, personal name Liu Bang), was the first emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty, ruling over China from 202 BC until 195 BC. [...]]]></description>
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<title>The Flower of Edo, Yoshiwara</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yoshiwara was the pleasure district of Edo, and its courtesans were considered among the "Flowers of Edo." An image of three different scenes; two of objects and one a portrait.]]></description>
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<title>From the Account of the Osaka War</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,294</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Representation of a warrior in battle. Standing behind the cover of a crate, he raises his sword overhead in a two-handed grip. A spear is thrust in to the crate before him. Left panel of a triptych.]]></description>
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<title>Matsunaga Hisahide Throwing a Cup Against a Pillar Before Committing Suicide</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,295</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An image of an old man, bare-chested, with a knife in his hand, throwing a cup (which shatters) against a pillar.  Yoshitoshi's Warriors Trembling with Courage is the transitional series from the clamor of Yoshitoshi's early prints-with their astonishing [...]]]></description>
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<title>Obata Sukerokuro Nobuyo Commits Harakiri</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,297</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An image of a man committing suicide: Obata Sukerokuro Nobuyo, brave young faithful warrior of Ishida (landlord).  Ishida lost the war and Nobuyo spied among friends and enemies to discover the fate of his master, Ishida.  Nobuyo was captured by the enemy[...]]]></description>
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<title>Bats in the Fifth Act of Chushingura (top); The World of the Bell - The Story of Anchin and Kiyohime (bottom)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the top panel two bats, one carrying an umbrella and a scarf and the other two swords, parody an act from the play Chushingura. In the lower half, the monk Anchin hides in a bell to escape the attentions of the woman Kiyohime. A samurai in armor wearin[...]]]></description>
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<title>Lady Kayo Holding a Severed Head</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,299</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An image of a woman holding a severed head. The beautiful but evil woman who ruined a nation by seducing its ruler away from his duties was a familiar subject during certain periods of Chinese and Japanese history.  In the popular imagination, the downfal[...]]]></description>
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<title>Nitta Shiro Tadatsune Holding a Torch in the Mysterious Cavern where he saw a Vision of Bodhisattva Kannon</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,300</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Back to back print. Yoshitoshi here depicts an incident in which the 12th-century samurai  Nitta Shirō Tadatsune discovered a mysterious cave on Mt. Fuji. While his companions were afraid to enter, the samurai seized a torch and entered the darkness. In [...]]]></description>
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<title>Watanabe no Tsuna, One of the Four Chief Retainers of Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Riding a Horse in the Rain</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,303</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Watanabe no Tsuna sits astride a rearing, blue-eyed,  brown horse in a downpour. He wears a helmet and armor, and has his katana hung from cord about his waist. In his left hand he carries a sign on a post. The rain is indicated by diagonal slashes of bla[...]]]></description>
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<title>A fireman, looking left, holding the standard for district six</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,305</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A fireman (hikeshi), dressed in a heavy quilted jacket and trousers, rope sandals, and wearing a headband, holds the matoi -- a three-dimensional standard used for identification and communication -- for his brigade. A protective glove dangles from his ri[...]]]></description>
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<title>Fashionable Davallias of Actors</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The actor is portrayed in a round frame, from which hangs a chime and a slip of paper. ]]></description>
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<title>Six o'clock a.m.</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Print of a courtesan, tying a scarf on her head.  This series of 24 images of courtesans shows typical moments of the various times of day.  The licensed brothels in South-Central Tokyo would close at dawn and here a prostitute prepares to leave her place[...]]]></description>
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<title>Looking Suitable; A Brothel Geisha of the Koka Era (1844-1848)</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,313</link>
<guid>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,313</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the autumn fashionable geisha would dress in their lover's garments to visit the neighborhood shrine and participate in Niwaka kyogen, impromptu skits about life in the brothels. Dressed like an elegant young man, a young lady glances up at a male comp[...]]]></description>
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<title>Ii no Hayata Killing a Nue in the Imperial Palace</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ii no Hayata dispatches the Nue--a beast with the head of a monkey, body of a badger, legs of a tiger, scales of dragon and tail of snake which descended onto the roof of the imperial palace in the form of a black cloud--with his sword after it was shot b[...]]]></description>
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<title>No. 72, Mount Miyaji moon - Moronaga</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,320</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After the Hogen Rebellion in 1156, the courtier and musician Fujiwara no Moronaga (1137-1192) was exiled to the island of Shikoku. That autumn he consoled himself with a visit to Mt. Miyaji. Yoshitoshi depicts Fujiwara no Moronaga playing a biwa by moonli[...]]]></description>
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<title>The Peony Lantern and the Ghost of the Courtesan Otsuyu</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,323</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An image of a beautiful woman and an old crone with a lamp made of peony flowers.  The Peony Lantern is a ghostly romance adapted from an old Chinese tale by the novelist Encho in 1884.  The chilling story was extremely popular and was dramatized in July [...]]]></description>
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<title>Fujiwara Sanekata's Obsession with Sparrows</title>
<link>http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,325</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A man in ragged robes sits on the ground before a yellow-flowering bush watching sparrows flying above him. Sanekata was a poet and high-ranking nobleman of the Fujiwara clan. He died in exile in 994. Toward the end of his political career, Sanekata quarr[...]]]></description>
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<title>No. 72, Mount Miyaji moon - Moronaga</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After the Hogen Rebellion in 1156, the courtier and musician Fujiwara no Moronaga (1137-1192) was  exiled to the island of Shikoku. That autumn he consoled himself with a visit to Mt. Miyaji. Yoshitoshi depicts Fujiwara no Moronaga playing a biwa by moonl[...]]]></description>
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<title>No. 40, The Moon of the Milky Way</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In China and Japan, the constellations Vega and Altair are called the Weaver Maiden and the Herdsman. Legend says that after Shokiyo, the Weaver Maiden, fell in love with and married Kengi, the Herdsman, she became distracted and failed in her duty to wea[...]]]></description>
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<title>Heron Maiden</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An image of a woman with a large yellow and black umbrella (open) and three white herons. The relationship of the animal kingdom to the world of human beings is close in rural societies.  People feel a kinship with the wild creatures around them.  As a re[...]]]></description>
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<title>No. 42, Moon of the Enemy's Lair - Little Prince Usu</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When he was sixteen, Prince Usu of Yamato was sent by his father to suppress a rebellion by the Kumaso, an aboriginal tribe to the west. Before leaving the prince visited his aunt, from whom he borrowed female clothes. Upon his arrival at the rebel's camp[...]]]></description>
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<title>No. 82, Kenshin in camp before battle</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The warlord Uesugi Kenshin, dressed in full armor, waits in camp before battle. Seated on a deerskin-draped stool beside a blue and white windbreak, he looks over his shoulder at a flock of birds flying past a full moon. A poet, as well as soldier, he hol[...]]]></description>
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<title>Shima sakon Tomoyuki is Hit by Bullets in the Battle of Sekigahara, His Rosary Swinging in the Air</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shima Sakon Tomoyuki was once one of the principal kerai ('vassals') of Tsutsui Junkei (1549-84), later became a retainer of Ishida no Mitsunari (1560-1600), the most important figure on Toyotomi Hideyori's staff who fought against Tokugawa Ieyasu in the [...]]]></description>
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<title>The Spirit of Tengu Helping Tamiya Botaro Munechika Avenge his Father's Death</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An old, bearded man holding a feather fan floats above a young man in white with a sword. A bucket and dipper sit in the background. Tengu are forest creatures with long noses who can fly and fight fiercely; his supernatural status is indicated in the pri[...]]]></description>
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<title>Shiei Riding a Carp Over the Sea</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shiei caught a red carp which he released in his pond. He fed it well, and it grew to enormous size. One day the carp spoke to him and promised to carry him to heaven. Here Shiei, dressed in a green Chinese robe, has mounted the fish and is carried aloft [...]]]></description>
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<title>Tamamo no mae Standing by the 'Death Stone' on Nasu Moor</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tamamo no mae was the beautiful and learned concubine of the Emperor Toba. One evening during a banquet, the wind rose and the lights went out, and the emperor became ill. The court magician declared this the sorcerous work of the concubine, who fled to N[...]]]></description>
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<title>Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido: 55, Kyoto</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An ornately costumed man wearing a mask dances on spring green grass before a waterfall and surrounded by cherry blossoms. An ornately printed screen hangs from a rope before him. ]]></description>
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<title>Fujiwara Sanekata's Obsession with Sparrows</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An image of a man, sitting on the ground, watching birds fly above him.  Sanekata was a poet and high-ranking nobleman of the Fujiwara clan.  He died in exile in 994.  Toward the end of his political career, Sanekata quarrelled publicly with Fujiwara no Y[...]]]></description>
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<title>Foxfires of the Twenty-four Examples of Filial Piety</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An image of a woman, in a flower covered red robe, dancing, surrounded by small flames.  Princess Yaegaki found herself in as difficult a situation as Romeo and Juliet, with whom this story from the play Honcho Nijushiko, or Twenty-four Examples of Filial[...]]]></description>
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<title>Ota Dokan deciding to study poetry</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ota Dokan approached an inn on a rainy day to request the loan of a rain coat. Instead, the maid brought him a Yamabuki flower on a tray. Her meaning was expressed by the poem "Although having many petals the Yamabuki, to our regret, has no seed." The wor[...]]]></description>
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<title>The Demon of Rashomon Retrieves Her Arm</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Watanabe no Tsuna, a Heian retainer of Minamoto no Yorimitsu, accepted a dare to keep vigil at the Rasho Gate, reputed to be haunted by demons. He took up a post at the gate, and in the darkness, he was attacked by the demon--an oni. Drawing his sword, he[...]]]></description>
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<title>The priest Dainiin murders Umegae</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the moment before Umegae's death, a cuckoo catches Dainin's attention and perhaps causes him to reflect upon the transience of life. The budding plum tree and the plum flower pattern in Umegae's kimono refer to her name and possible rebirth after leavi[...]]]></description>
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<title>Mori Rikimaru with Spear and Severed Heads</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The medieval warrior Mori Rikimaru stands with his bloodied spear and two severed heads slung around his neck as trophies. On May 15, 1868 two thousand troops loyal to the shogunate fought a desperate battle at Ueno, in Edo, near the tombs of some of the [...]]]></description>
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<title>Collected Themes of One Hundred Aspects of the Moon</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Between 1885 and 1892 Yoshitoshi published a series of 100 individual woodblock prints depicting figures from Japanese and Chinese legend, history, literature, and theater. These are the contents pages for the series, designed by the calligrapher, Sogaku [...]]]></description>
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<title>Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido: 38, Fujikawa</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Tōkaidō was one of a series of roads connecting Japan's historic capital of Edo with the rest of Japan. The most important of these, the Tōkaidō connected Edo with Kyoto and had 53 post stations along the road, which provided food, lodging and sta[...]]]></description>
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<title>The Picture of the Homecoming of Urashima Taro's Son from the Dragon's Palace</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fisherman Urashima Taro is carried back to his home on the back of a giant turtle after visiting the Emperor of the Sea at the Palace of the Dragon. He is dressed in rough working clothes with straw gaiters on his legs and carries a pole in his right [...]]]></description>
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<title>Dual between Musashi (1583-1647) and Tsukahara Bokuden</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this imaginary duel the swordsman Musashi, who was noted for his use of bokutō (wooden swords) in duels, attacks the kensei (sword saint) Tsukahara Bokuden (1489-1571), founder of the mutekatsu-ryu school of fighting ("without hands" or "without using[...]]]></description>
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<title>Raiko and the Earth Spider</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A sketch of two actors, Sakata Kintoki and Tsuchigumo in a play from the story of Raiko and the Earth Spider. In this tale, Raiko, while on a quest in search of a giant flying skull,  found himself feeling ill and retired for the night. A servant boy (or [...]]]></description>
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<title>Nitta no Shiro Tadatsune Entering a Cave with a Torch</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yoshitoshi here depicts an incident in which the 12th-century samurai  Nitta Shirō Tadatsune discovered a mysterious cave on Mt. Fuji. While his companions were afraid to enter, the samurai seized a torch and entered the darkness. In a large cavern withi[...]]]></description>
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<title>No. 5, Mr. Eto Shinpei (1834-1874), Politician</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A participant in the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate, after the Meiji Restoration Etō Shinpei  was appointed to a number of government posts, including Minister of Justice where he played a part in overhauling Japan's penal code. He resigned from the[...]]]></description>
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<title>Zennojo, A Filial Child from Shinano Province, Dreams of his Father's Crimes...</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Enma (the demon king of the underword) is showing the boy Zennojo his father's crimes in a magic mirror. The child Zennojo crouches before the mirror held by a red demon. Behind him, a blue, horned demon stands, pointing at the mirror and showing Zennojo [...]]]></description>
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<title>Tamiya Botaro Munechika (the spirit of the tengu helping Tamiya Botaro Munechika</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yoshitoshi here depicts an incident in which the 12th-century samurai  Nitta Shirō Tadatsune discovered a mysterious cave on Mt. Fuji. While his companions were afraid to enter, the samurai seized a torch and entered the darkness. In a large cavern withi[...]]]></description>
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<title>Okubo Tadanori (1560-1639) Rescuing Tokugawa Ieyasu on the Battlefield</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Back to back print.  A warrior in armor carries another across his back from the battlefield. The battle behind him is represented by black, swirling clouds and red flashes. Okubo Hikozaemon (1560-1639) was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's trusted generals and ad[...]]]></description>
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<title>From the Account of the Osaka War</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Under a moonlit night sky, a samurai raises his sword overhead in a two-handed grip to cut down at a second warrior whose spear is caught in the crate before him. A young child is strapped to his back. Behind them a fallen samurai collapses in a pool of b[...]]]></description>
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<title>Actor with a Scroll</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A close-up portrait of a kabuki actor in costume holding a scroll. He wears a small hat fastened with an elaborate braided cord over his shaved forehead and a black robe emblazoned with a gold character]]></description>
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<title>Sato Tadanobu (1160-1185), One of the Four Bodyguards of Minamoto Yoshitsune (11</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sata Tadanobu, katana drawn, leaps through the air in a snowy landscape. Panels of his armor and the cords binding them fly about him, and he has a bunch of arrows lashed to his back. ]]></description>
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<title>Horii Tsuneemon Speared at the Stake</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An image of a man crucified on a cross.  Label on verso reads: "He entered into enemy castle as a spy, but was captured and crucified but continued to defend his master and spoke against his enemies til his last breath." - artist Nonin Ikkisai.  In 1575 H[...]]]></description>
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