Chang E Flees to the Moon, 1885, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Akiyama Buemon, Japanese, 1839 - 1892, 12 15/16 × 8 3/4 in. ( × cm) (image, vertical ōban), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century, According to Chinese legend, the archer Hou Yi shot down nine of the ten suns whose combined heat threatened to destroy the earth. As a reward, the Queen Mother of the West gave Hou Yi an elixir of immortality. Hou Yi's wife, Chang-E, unwittingly drank the potion herself. Rising to the moon, she has live there ever since within the crystal walls

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