Moon Tsuki (title on object) Flowers, birds, wind and moon (series title) Kachôfûgetsu (series title on object), An old man with a fan in his right hand, stands at the bottom of a long stairs. At the top of the stairs is a lady in front of a pavilion. The man is the Chinese emperor Gensô (Hsüang Tsung, 685-762) and the woman his favorite concubine Yôkihi (Yang Kuei-fei, 719-56). Here their encounter in the hereafter is depicted, Yôkihi was executed after she and her family gained too much power. Measure three poems., Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), Japan, 1822, paper, colour woodcut, h 20

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