Gamma Senmin, Soga Shōhaku (1730-1783). Freer Collection, Washington.
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Cú Chulainn stirred,
Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard
The cars of battle and his own name cried;
And fought with the invulnerable tide.
——Yeats, Cú Chulainn’s Fight with the Sea,
1892
