Utagawa Toyokuni I: Shosagoto characters Mitanoshi and Yamauba. - Library of Congress

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: Shosagoto characters Mitanoshi and Yamauba.

Date: [between 1848 and 1854]

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Print shows the characters of Yamauba, an old woman who lives in the mountains, and Mitanoshi, who appears to be an old priest or monk, in a shosagoto dance routine with a rabbit and a deer competing in a feat of strength by standing on their fore-paws with the trunk of a tree across the back of their necks.

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