Mount Tenpai
March 1896
About this artwork
This ukiyo-e woodblock print depicts the historical figure Sugawara no Michizane at Mount Tenpai, characterized by a dramatic use of light and weather. It is a work by the noted Meiji-period artist Ogata Gekkō.
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Mount Tenpai is famous for its association with Sugawara no Michizane, a scholar and poet who was unfairly exiled to Dazaifu. Legend says that in his profound sorrow and frustration, he climbed this mountain to pray to the heavens for justice, and the mountain itself became a testament to his piety and tragic end. This print captures the spiritual intensity of that legendary moment during a turbulent storm.
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Mount Tenpai
Gekkō Ogata, March 1896
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