Chapter 73: My hands cannot touch you like the cassia in the moon Nanajûsandan - Te ni wa towarenu tsuki no uchi no katsura no gotoki (title on object) Stories of Ise (series title on object) Ise monogatari (series title on object), A circular disc with a hare with a mortar, attached to a wooden staff with strips of paper (gohei). In the foreground a bronze bell with rope and a court hat (eboshi). The title is from Chapter 37 of the Stories of Ise and are the thoughts of a man walking past a woman's house. He can't send her a message, so he thinks: I can see you with my eyes, but my hands can't touch you - you're really like the cassia in the moon. With two poems, pestle and mortar, rodents: hers, Kubota Shunman (mentioned on object), Japan, 1812, paper, colour woodcut, h 211 mm × w 170 mm
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