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| Keywords: Matsuke Heikichi - Nogaku zue - Walters 95256.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Daikokuya Matsuki Heikichi en Crazed by grief a mother searches for her kidnapped child only to discover that he died a year earlier at the spot beside the Sumida River that she has just reached Brought to a grassy mound by a willow tree under which the child was buried she is asked by the villagers to lead their prayers to Amida Buddha While they are chanting the child repeatedly appears before her eyes Mother Is it you my child Ghost Is it you my mother Chorus And as she seeks to grasp it by the hand The shape begins to fade away; The vision fades and reappears And stronger grows her yearning Day breaks in the eastern sky The ghost has vanished; What seemed her boy Is but a grassy mound Lost on the wide desolate moor Sadness and tender pity fill all hearts Sadness and tender pity fill all hearts 1899 Meiji pigments mulberry paper cm 24 77 37 15 accession number 95 256 18557 Mr and Mrs C R Snell Jr date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Mr and Mrs C R Snell Jr 1989 Signature Kogyo place of origin Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license PD-old-auto 1927 2D Japanese prints in the Walters Art Museum Historic samurai prints Daikokuya Matsuki Heikichi Kōgyo Tsukioka | ||||
