Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: No. 53 Unuma 鵜沼 / Kisokaido rokujoku tsugi no uchi 木曾街道六十九次之内 (Sixty-Nine Post Stations of the Kisokaido)
Date: 1852 (7th month)
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Unuma Station. The farmer Yoemon murdering his deformed wife Kasane with a sickle under a willow tree on the river bank, her spirit rising and taking shape above him. A figure watches from a bridge in the distance (Inset: rocky landscape with waterfall and distant mountain).
