Foxfires of the twenty-four examples of filial piety

• Main Author: Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka
• Format: Still Image
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Sasaki Toyokichi. 1892
• Subjects: legends (folk tales); women; kimonos; hair ornaments; helms (body armor); flowers (plants); symbolism (artistic concept); Ukiyo-e; Romeo; Frozen Lake; Helms; Icy Lake; white fox
• Online Access: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cyw,349

A woman, in a flower-covered red robe, dances, surrounded by small flames. Princess Yaegaki found herself in as difficult a situation as Romeo and Juliet, with whom this story from the play Honcho Nijushiko, or Twenty-four Examples of Filial Piety, is approximately contemporaneous. The daughter of U...