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Asian Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Ichirakutei Eisui, Japanese, active ca. 1790–1823
The Elopement of O-Some and Hisamatsu: Heroes and heroines of Joruri Puppet Numbers
ca. 1797
Polychrome woodblock print
sheet: 14 3/4 × 9 9/16 in. (37.5 × 24.3 cm)
Frances Gaylord Smith Collection
1972.32.12
Geography:
Japan
Status:
By appointment
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification:
Works on Paper - Prints
Provenance:
Collection of Mrs. George T. Smith
Bibliography:
George J. Lee, Edo Culture in Japanese prints, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 12–13, ill.
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