Genjigumo ukiyo-e awase

1845-46 (late Edo)

23 cm 35 cm

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Danshichi Kurobei, the fishmonger hero of the play "Natsu matsuri" ("The Summer Festival"), puts a handgrip on Otori Sagaemon to keep him from bothering a courtesan. Danshichi had promised to look after the courtesan Kotoura's welfare, just as Genji looked after the welfare of...

Drawing

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Justine Lewis Keidel [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by gift.
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en
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2
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Utagawa School
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