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The Actors Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Kōno Moronao and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Momoi Wakasanosuke

Utagawa Toyokuni III (Japanese, 1786-1864) (known as Kunisada) (Artist)
1855 (late Edo)
ink and color on mulberry paper
(Japan and Korea )

Wakanosuke, wearing yellow, grips his sword hilt in anger, barely restraining himself from drawing his sword. Moronao, the evil governor of Kamakura, having just been caught trying to seduce another's wife, insults Wakanosuke almost to the point of confrontation. The opposition of these two characters sets in motion the traumatic events to follow, including suicide and revenge.

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[Signature] On print: Toyokuni ga

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

Exhibitions

2018-2019 Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Art of Collaboration. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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Geographies

Japan, Tokyo (Edo) (Place of Origin)

Credit Line

Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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95.532

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600 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD
21201

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