Three Part Print: Natsu matsuri chukoden
(Japan and Korea )
After a job has been arranged for him as a clerk, the once wealthy but now disinherited Seishichi (left) falls in love with the shopkeeper's daughter (center), with whom he manages to elope. The attempts of another clerk (right) to entrap him are unsuccessful. This scene is set on the theater runway in front of the closed stage curtain.
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Provenance
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Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan, Osaka (Place of Origin)
Credit Line
Bequest of Robert S. Shaull, 1990
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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95.727