2-716-818 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"No, no", said Matsuo..."this is not the body of my boy", 1919. 'We are going to bury our young lord!" With these words, Matsuo and his wife took their farewells. Then, turning in silence, they followed the impromptu bier which bore all that was left to them of their well-beloved child, and with bowed heads reverently wended their way towards their now desolate and empty home.' Kotaro, the son of Matsuo and his wife O Chiyo, was killed in place of Kanshusai, the son of the Lord Sugawara. Illustration to "Loyal, Even Unto Death, or The Sugawara Tragedy", a story in "Romances of Old Japan", by Madame Yukio Ozaki. [Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, London, 1919]