Edo Murasaki Gojuyon-cho

Description Toyokuni III drew the portrait of an unidentified Kabuki actor in the lower portion of this print. His student Kunisato filled in the background with an illustration from a chapter in "Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji" ("Fake Murasaki's Country Genji"). In this scene, the hero Mitsuuji pays a visit to one of his lovers behind her folding screens, where she has retreated during a frightening typhoon.

Provenance Justine Lewis Keidel [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by gift.

Inscriptions [Signature] Kunimasa monjin Hirosada (?); [Signature] Toyokuni ga; monjin (student) Kunisato (?); [Date Seal] Ne juichi; [Date Seal Translation] Rat 11 (November 1852)

Credit Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1986