| | Stockno.: | 22-008 | Artist: | Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839-1892) | Description: | No. 38 Ariko weeps (Ariko no Naishi) from the series One hundred aspects of the moon (Tsuki hyakushi).
Published by Akiyama Buemon, September 6th 1886.
The tragic figure is Ariko no Naishi, a lady who’s unrequited love for Tokudaji no Sanesada (a senior councillor) led her to drown herself in Lake Biwa. The tragic lovestory is told by her ghost in the Noh play Ariko no Naishi.
The poem in the cartouche reads:
hakanashiya
nami no shita nimo
irinubeshi
tsuki no miyako no
hito ya miru tote
How hopeless it is
it would be better for me to sink beneath the waves
perhaps then I could see my man from Moon Capital | Signed: | Yoshitoshi, seal Taiso | Size: | Oban tate-e | Condition: | Very good impression, colour and condition | Price: | Euro 1250 SOLD | Reference: | John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, 2001, cat. no. 38 | | | |
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