Emperor Godaigo － Left

There are fully armed Samurais and monk soldiers, and also scared nuns crouching down while tightly holding onto their Buddhist rosaries. There comes a man down the stone steps. This person, whose face is not shown, is Emperor Godaigo himself. He is known to have fled from Kyoto in 1336 and established the government in Yoshino, Nara.The work captures the extremely tense moment where he is about to escape the imperial palace disguised as a woman in a female’s straw hat and Kimono.