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Source Description
Male role (Shuomaru?) played by Onoe Kikugoro III and female role (Shoji-musume Osato) played by Iwai Kumesaburo II. The man appears to be writing out the Buddhist incantation "Namu myoho renge kyo"
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Document identity
localId
17454
label
Lady spies on a man writing nembutsu
core
obj
dtoType
print
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
17454
sourceUrl
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Lady spies on a man writing nembutsu
description
Male role (Shuomaru?) played by Onoe Kikugoro III and female role (Shoji-musume Osato) played by Iwai Kumesaburo II. The man appears to be writing out the Buddhist incantation "Namu myoho renge kyo"
provenance
C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
date
ca. 1815-32 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
woodblock prints
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
style
Utagawa School
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Gototei Kunisada ga; [Signature] Toyoshige ga; [Transcription] Namu myoho renge kyo; [Translation] Praise to the Sutra of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma
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37188
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med
Mulberry paper, pigments
creator_ids
3276
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
3514
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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16ddea98f55651f2
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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4274cd7eeb41c036
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no
hasDescription
no