Chang'e Flees to the Moon

Illustration

Ibolya Horvath
by The Trustees of the British Museum
published on 22 April 2016
Chang'e Flees to the Moon

Colour woodblock print by Yoshitoshi from 19th century CE Japan, showing the Chinese woman Chang'e journeying to the moon, where she becomes the deity Xi Wang Mu, the "Queen Mother of the West".

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