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25 August 2021

Minister of the Lanterns

Shigemori

Tairi no Shigemori constructed a Buddhist hall of 48 bays, each with a lantern tended by pretty girls, to plant the seeds of good karma in the next life (see Heike Monogatari, chapter 3, part 13). Painting by Kuchiki Keigetsu, 1910. Source.

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