Lady Chiyono 1773 Maruyama kyo This simply but deftly and sensitively painted figure of a young women who has just dropped a water bucket captures a moment from the medieval Japanese legend of Lady Chiyono, a woman of high birth who achieved Buddhist enlightenment when she saw the moon reflected in the spilled water. The master painter Maruyama kyo, one of the most powerful and prolific painters in Kyoto of the eighteenth century, has left most of the composition blank, and has discarded an attempt to create a feeling of three-dimensionality through shading (though he had mastered a more realistic style of painting). Lady Chiyono was the daughter of Adachi Yasumori (1231-1285), a prominent samurai who served as a governor of Mutsu (now the Tohoku region) during the time of the Kamakura Shgunate. She also became the second wife of the Kanezawa Sanetoki (1224-1276), the great scholar who belonged the Hj clan, who served as regents to the Shogun. After her husband's dea