The Painting of the Aurora in <i>Seikai</i> (IMAGE)

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The Painting of the Aurora in <i>Seikai</i>

Caption

The painting of the red aurora of Sept. 17 1770 in the premodern Japanese text "Seikai," which is owned by the Matsusaka City Museum of History and Traditional Crafts. A radial structure of stripes is shown, comprising small-scale rays inside the stripes. The bottom section and eastern/western edges of the stripes are somewhat darkened. The caption on the right-hand side may be translated as follows, "On 17 September 1770, at night, red vapor was active at northern sky. The figure was as it watched at midnight."

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Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture

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