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Source Description
Nikki Danjo is an evil character in the play "Meibutsu Sendai Hagi" (The Disputed Succession). He joins a group of conspirators who plan to kill the lord of Oshu and his son. When a list of the conspirators falls into the hands of the son's loyal nurse, Nikki Danjo retrieves it from her room by using his occult powers to change into a rat. A guard strikes at the rat as it emerges with a roll of paper in its mouth, but it vanishes in a cloud of white smoke. In the rat's place is Nikki Danjo-with a fresh wound on his brow that can be seen in Kunichika's print.
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Document identity
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19875
label
Katsugo Kijutsu kurabe
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19875
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title
Katsugo Kijutsu kurabe
description
Nikki Danjo is an evil character in the play "Meibutsu Sendai Hagi" (The Disputed Succession). He joins a group of conspirators who plan to kill the lord of Oshu and his son. When a list of the conspirators falls into the hands of the son's loyal nurse, Nikki Danjo retrieves it from her room by using his occult powers to change into a rat. A guard strikes at the rat as it emerges with a roll of paper in its mouth, but it vanishes in a cloud of white smoke. In the rat's place is Nikki Danjo-with a fresh wound on his brow that can be seen in Kunichika's print.
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snell, Jr. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1991, by gift.
date
ca. 1876-77 (Meiji)
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CC0
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en
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color woodcuts
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1
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1
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import
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Japanese
style
Utagawa School
inscriptions
[Signature] Oju Kunichika
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mulberry paper, pigments
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6301
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JPK
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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