Two scenes from a Samurai epic: left, a warrior brandishes his sword while an ethereal woman seeks to restrain (?) him; the severed head of a demon (?) cat lies on the ground; right, two mothers, one holding her child on her shoulder, the other seated on the ground breast-feeding. Woodcuts by Yanagawa Shigenobu, ca. 1830 (?).

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Credit: Two scenes from a Samurai epic: left, a warrior brandishes his sword while an ethereal woman seeks to restrain (?) him; the severed head of a demon (?) cat lies on the ground; right, two mothers, one holding her child on her shoulder, the other seated on the ground breast-feeding. Woodcuts by Yanagawa Shigenobu, ca. 1830 (?). Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.