Picture of the Lonely House at Adachigahara in Ōshū, September 1885, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Matsui Eikichi; Carver: Takimoto Chokuzan, Japanese, 1839 - 1892, 15 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. ( × cm) (sheet, each, approx., vertical ōban, upright diptych), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 19th century, A heavily pregnant woman is bound and gagged, strung upside-down from the ceiling in an old hut. Below, a wizened old woman sharpens her knife, ready to cut open the woman’s belly

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