The Elopement of O-Some and Hisamatsu: Heroes and heroines of Joruri Puppet Numbers

ca. 1797

Medium: Polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: sheet: 14 3/4 × 9 9/16 in. (37.5 × 24.3 cm)
Credit Line: Frances Gaylord Smith Collection
Accession Number: 1972.32.12
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Frances Gaylord Smith (Mrs. George T. Smith) Collection; by descent to nephew Gaylord Donnelley (1910–1992) and Dorothy Ranney Donnelley (1910–2002); loaned in 1969, and given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1972

Bibliography

George J. Lee, Edo Culture in Japanese prints, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 12–13, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher: Maruya Bunyemon

Inscriptions

UL: Bijin awase joruri kagami (Heroes and Heroines from joruri)

Signed

Signed middle right: Ichirakutei Eisui ga.

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