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| Keywords: Matsuke Heikichi - Nogaku zue - Walters 95248.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Daikokuya Matsuki Heikichi en When the ghost of the great beauty and poet Ono no Komachi asks a wandering priest right to pray for her soul she is held back by the ghost of a former suitor Shii no Shosho He had sacrificed his life in a vain effort to prove his love and cannot bear to have her leave him again Komachi Would you still have me suffer The tortures of hell Shosho Even when we suffered them together The pains were grievous But if you alone attain The Way of the Buddha You will add to the weight I bear Yet another cloak of sorrow Piling grief on grief ca 1899 Meiji pigments mulberry paper cm 25 37 2 accession number 95 248 26750 Mr and Mrs C R Snell Jr date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Mr and Mrs C R Snell Jr 1989 Signature Kogyo place of origin Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license PD-old-auto 1927 2D Japanese prints in the Walters Art Museum Historic samurai prints Daikokuya Matsuki Heikichi Kōgyo Tsukioka Ono no Komachi | ||||
