Tokaido gojusan tsui

Description Provenance Inscription Credit

Description As a husband passes by the place where his pregnant wife was brutally murdered, her ghost appears and hands their child to him. She then tells him the story of her murder and assists him as he takes revenge for her death.

Provenance C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.

Inscriptions [Signature] Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga

Credit Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991

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Creators

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1798-1861) (Artist)
Ibaya Sensaburo (Publisher)

Period

ca. 1845 (late Edo)

Medium

mulberry paper, pigments
(Prints)

Accession Number

95.568

Measurements

14 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (36.83 x 25.08 cm)

Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View