Japanese wood netsuke of Kiyohime,c.1940
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Japanese wood netsuke of Kiyohime,c1940./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Wiki:Kiyohime (清姫) (or just Kiyo) in Japanese folklore is a character in the story of Anchin and Kiyohime. In this story, she fell in love with a Buddhist monk named Anchin, but after her interest in the monk were rejected, she chased after him and transformed into a serpent in a rage, before killing him in a bell where he had hidden in the Dōjō-ji temple.
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Japanese wood netsuke of Kiyohime,c.1940
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