Caption:
'Kato Sayemon in his Palace of the Shogun Ashikaga', 1912. Kato Sayemon sees serpents rising from his wife's hair as she plays Go with a companion, he withdraws from family life devoting himself to Buddha in the monastery on Koya San. From "Myths & Legends of Japan", by F. Harland Davis. [George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1912]