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Hatsuhana doing penance under the Tonosawa waterfall

hatsuhana-doing-penance-under-the-tonosawa-waterfall Amazing woodblock by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. As the story goes, Hatsuhana was a very virtuous woman. Here she is doing penance under the Tonozawa waterfall for the cure of her son's knee - but the hardship of the penance proved too much for her and she died. However, her son was miraculously cured. He sought revenge, and kills his arch-enemy near the waterfall.