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Print number 22 of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays) depicting a scene from the play Michimori by the playwright Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443).

The Play - Michimori

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 107.

A priest visiting Naruto goes out one evening to read sutras for the souls of the Taira warriors who perished there, and meets a woman and an old man who approach the shore by boat.  They tell him how Kozaisho no Tsubone, the wife of Michimori, drowned herself there at the news of her husband's death, and then disappear among the waves.  The priest prays for them and after a while they reappear, Michimori being this time in his true form.  The priest hears the story of the battle, and Michimori and his wife rejoice that they have been able to attain salvation together.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#330
Title	Michimori 通盛
Series	Nōga taikan 能画大鑑 (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays or A Great Mirror of Noh Pictures or A Great Collection of Noh Pictures)
Artist	Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Signature	Kōgyo
Seal	Kōgyo seal
Date	originally July 5, 1926
Edition	unknown
Publisher	Seibi Shoten (or Seibi Shoin), Tokyo
Carver	Uchida Eikichi
Printer	Yoshida Takesaburō
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	good - light wrinkling; thinning along right margin; full-size; not backed
Genre	ukiyo-e
Miscellaneous
Format	oban yoko-e
H x W Paper	10 x 14 1/2 in. (25.4 x 36.8 cm)
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