Japanese Print "Hotaru 螢 (No. 25 Fireflies) / Genji kumo ukiyoe awase 源氏雲浮世絵合 (Ukiyo-e Parallels for the Cloudy Chapters of the Tale of Genji)" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Artist:Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title:Hotaru 螢 (No. 25 Fireflies) / Genji kumo ukiyoe awase 源氏雲浮世絵合 (Ukiyo-e Parallels for the Cloudy Chapters of the Tale of Genji)
Date:1845-1846
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Source:British Museum
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Description:
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Tamiya Iemon with his servant Akiyama Chobei, a woman behind them, her shadowing revealing her true form as the ghost of his murdered wife Oiwa. Poem inscribed above.
