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Kiyohime illustration

Posted 25 Feb 2008 in art, personal

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Last night, I finally finished a drawing I started last month. It’s my interpretation of the Japanese ghost Kiyohime – a character featured in Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s “One Hundred Ghost Stories”.

Kiyohime was the daughter of an innkeeper. On his annual pilgrimage to the Kumano Shrine, the young monk, Anchin, stayed at the inn, and brought Kiyohime a present. As she grew up, Kiyohime developed a passionate love for Anchin, which she finally declared. Horrified, he fled to his monastery, Kiyohime in pursuit. The Hidaka River was too flooded to cross, so she changed to a serpent to swim over. Seeing her coming, Anchin hid under the temple bell. The serpent coiled around the bell, and the heat of her lust melted the bell, killing both.

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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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