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In the story of Briar Rose (or Sleeping Beauty) he found a perfect theme, with knights and maidens and kings and queens all asleep amid the flourishing underbrush.
A tomb with a steeply inclined entrance, that of Princess Yong Tai, has a mural which is full of intriguing details depicting the court maidens attending the princess (who was to die at the age of 17).
In return for a donation to the shrine, the shrine maidens (miko), dressed in the typically Shinto outfit of bright-red pleated skirts with white blouses, will perform one of the dances.
Burne-Jones studied briefly with Rossetti, and his early work, with its intense floral patterning--the flowers on the ground blending with the flowers in the maidens' costumes--could easily be mistaken for Rossetti's.
How could a serious European artist, a contemporary of Degas' and Manet's, spend his time filling medieval ghost towns with somnambulant knights and maidens?