Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: Kamiya Iemon; Oiwa no bokon 神谷伊右衛門、お岩のぼうこん
Date: 1848
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock print, oban tate-e. Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Kamiya Iemon, a Ronin turned paper umbrella maker, looking at a lantern in which he sees the ghost of his wife Oiwa, as portrayed by Ichikawa Kodanji IV, in the play 'Atari mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki' (当三升四谷聞書) at the Kawarazaki theater in the ninth month of Kaei 1 (1848).
