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| Keywords: Got么 Sokuj么 - Kozuka with the D么j么ji Temple Bell - Walters 51805.jpg This design is a scene from the story of D鬸鬸i temple The temple bell is shown at the center of the composition At the right are two monks holding prayer beads and praying A woman dances at the left holding a mallet for striking the bell The monks at D鬸鬸i used the bell to hide a traveling monk who was trying to escape a woman who was pursuing him She thought he had promised to marry her and in her anger at his rejection of her transformed herself into a dragon She coiled herself around the bell and killed the hidden monk by breathing fire on the bell In the noh and kabuki plays about the story a dancer who is the spirit of the jealous woman comes to the temple to celebrate the installation of a new bell She dances under the bell and when it falls on her she is transformed into a dragon The dancer is shown here as a fox Foxes were commonly thought to take the form of a beautiful woman in order to cause mischief between 1600 1631 early Edo shibuichi gold cm 9 8 l accession number 51 805 10696 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters signature place of origin Kyoto Japan Walters Art Museum license Kozuka in the Walters Art Museum Got么 Sokuj么 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Reliefs of dancers on Japanese sword fittings | ||||
