2-716-808 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Gunbei had watched the execution of his cruel order from the veranda', 1919. 'But what was his surprise when he came upon her bound to the cherry-tree."Jurobei, at last you have come!" she gasped. "Takao Sama, whatever has happened? Why are you treated like this?" "It is because I could not endure Gunbei's hateful attentions," she answered, weeping. "Help me, I cannot move!" Jurobei set to work to unfasten the ropes and in a few minutes Takao was released.' Illustration to "The Quest of the Sword", a story in "Romances of Old Japan", by Madame Yukio Ozaki. [Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, London, 1919]