Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi no Uchi

Description Provenance Inscription Credit

Description The outlaw Goemon escapes after committing numerous crimes and continues to pursue the life of a brigand. However, he is captured and sentenced by the general Hisayoshi to public execution by being cast into a cauldron of boiling oil in Kyoto.

Provenance Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] Toyokuni ga

Credit Bequest of Robert S. Shaull, 1990

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Creators

Utagawa Toyokuni III (Japanese, 1786-1864) (Artist)
Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Japanese) (Publisher)

Period

1852 (late Edo)

Medium

mulberry paper, pigments
(Prints)

Accession Number

95.761

Measurements

13 13/16 x 9 1/2 in. (35.08 x 24.13 cm)

Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View