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DescriptionYoshitsuya Nii-no-ama.jpg
English: Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitsuya; print title Nii no ama, from the series Mirror of Warriors of Our Country (Honchō musha kagami); date 3/1856; 10.75" by 14.25". The print depicts Nii no Ama, the grandmother of emperor Antoku, jumping over board, when she saw that the battle of Dan-no-ura was lost. Antoku tennō was according to tradition a rebirth of a dragon-king’s daughter and here she is returning to her father.
日本語: 「本朝武者鏡 二位の尼」
Date
(Ansei 3), Edo period
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From here. For the print see here and for the story here.
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