Reference Images for “The story of Kwashin Koji”


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Left: Lafcadio Hearn in Japanese attire. Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum.
Source: https://www.hearn-museum-matsue.jp/hearn.html
Right: Lafcadio Hearn and his wife
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn
      

       

The former residence of the Koizumi Family, Matsue. A typical warrior’s residence with a roofed gate.
Source: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5803.html

  

 

Kousai Ishikawa in his later years.
Source: 池澤一郎, 宮崎修多, 徳田武, ロバート・キャンベル: 『新日本古典文学大系 3 - 明治編』, 岩波書店, 2005 (Ichiro Ikezawa, Shuta Miyazaki, Takeshi Tokuda, Robert Campbell, Shin-Nihonbunngaku-taikei 3 - Meiji, Iwanami-Shoten 2005).

  

   

Kousai Ishikawa in his study. Frontispiece in: Kousai Ishikawa, “Yaso Kidan 1/2”. 1893 (Meiji 26). 2307_Yasokidan_1.pdf, Toyama University Library.
Source: http://www.lib.u-toyama.ac.jp/chuo/hearn/hearn_index.html#hearn_book

  

  


“The west gate of Gion Shrine - A famous place in Kyoto”, by Shugen Sadanobu Kanou. Owned by Ritsumeikan University.
Source: https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/image/ritsumei/arcUP2562
  

   


"Kiyomizu Temple - Otowa Waterfall", by Shuntousai Okada. A copperplate print owned by Ritsumeikan University.
Source: https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/image/ritsumei/arcUP3600

     

   


"Kitano-Temmangu Shrine - Lantern Festival for the 950th Year Semicentennial Memorial Service (1852)", by Gyosai.

Sold at Yamada-Shoten Co. Source: https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/image/ritsumei/arcUP3600

     

        

“Jigoku-hensou-zu (The phases of torture in the hell)”, by Ougyo Maruyama. Held at Shinseiji Temple, Suginami, Tokyo.
Source: https://www.city.fuchu.tokyo.jp/art/tenrankai/kikakuitiran/fantastic.html

  

   

Sliding doors with the picture of “Escaped sparrows”, painted by Nobumasa Kanou. Cion-in Temple, Kyoto.
Source: https://www.chion-in.or.jp/highlight/wonders.php

  

  

An illustration in “Tamahahaki” by Gitan Hayashi depicting the flood caused by Kwashin Koji.
Source: National Diet Library Collection - Kindle Edition.

  
 

An illustration in “Kwashin Koji Kwankonsau (Kwashin Koji - Evening tale), in which Kwshin Koji disappeared on a boat off the Biwa Lake. In: Kousai Ishikawa, Yaso Kidan 2/2, 1893 (Meiji 26). 2307_Yasokidan_2.pdf, Toyama University Library.
Source: http://www.lib.u-toyama.ac.jp/chuo/hearn/hearn_index.html#hearn_book