A Conversation

ca. 1850-1855 (late Edo)

18 cm 23.5 cm

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The play depicted in this print has not yet been identified, but the two actors here could be husband and wife, or innkeeper and guest. The double-portrait format is unusual; Hirosada's half-length portraits ("okubi-e") usually feature just an individual actor.

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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1
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Osaka School
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