1927 (ca.), Tsukioka Kōogyo, Dōjōji, nochijite, from the series Nōogaky hyakuban -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: In the second part of the play Dōjōji, the dancer secretly slips underneath the temple bell before it drops over her. Frightened by the sound, the monks recount the tale of a woman who fell madly in love with a mountain priest but was abandoned by him. The priest hid underneath the bell as the woman turned into a fire-breathing demon and fried him by melting the bell. In the middle of the monks' story, the dancer suddenly reemerges from underneath the bell in the form of a snake--the image illustrated here in Kōgyo's print. At the end of the play, the jealous spirit is quelled by prayer and burns herself with her own flames.
1927 (ca.), Tsukioka Kōogyo, Dōjōji, nochijite, from the series Nōogaky hyakuban -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: In the second part of the play Dōjōji, the dancer secretly slips underneath the temple bell before it drops over her. Frightened by the sound, the monks recount the tale of a woman who fell madly in love with a mountain priest but was abandoned by him. The priest hid underneath the bell as the woman turned into a fire-breathing demon and fried him by melting the bell. In the middle of the monks' story, the dancer suddenly reemerges from underneath the bell in the form of a snake--the image illustrated here in Kōgyo's print. At the end of the play, the jealous spirit is quelled by prayer and burns herself with her own flames.