Japanese Print "Bonsai Tree and Priest - Kabuki" by Toyohara Kunichika
Artist:Toyohara Kunichika
Title:Bonsai Tree and Priest - Kabuki
Date:Ca. 1870s.
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Source:artelino - Japanese Prints
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"Hachi no Ki no Taii" Genzaemon (middle: played by Bando Hikosaburo) and his wife Hakumyo (Sawamura Tossho) cut up their precious bonsai tree for firewood to warm up a strange guest in a cold snowy night. The stranger was the regent Tokiyori Nyudo (played by Ichikawa Sadanji. Historically, the regent Hojo Tokiyori,1226-63) who disguised as a monk to see the lives of his people. This famous episode has been depicted in numerous plays and pictures.
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