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Immortal falling from a cloud
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The immortal Kume Sennin falls from the sky upon seeing the bare legs of a young woman who is doing laundry by the Yoshino river. Sennin mastered the art of flying, but seeing these legs filled him with such passion that he lost his strength and fell from the sky, just in front of the woman. Later, they would marry.
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Credit lineImmortal falling from a cloud. 1856-02. Utagawa Kunisada (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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