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Kiuchi Sogoro, as mayor of Kozu-mura (present day Narita City), presented a petition in 1652 directly to the shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna asking tax relief for his farming village because of a bad harvest and harsh treatment by the local governor Hotta Masanobu. Sogoro knew such political action was illegal and that he would be executed. He tried to divorce his wife to save his family from harm, but she refused to separate, preferring to die with her dutiful husband. Here she is shown seeing off Sogoro into a snowy landscape. The story became a popular kabuki play in 1851, Sakura giminden.
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