Ogura Imitation of the One Hundred Poems (series title), Kamiya Niemon startled by the lantern ghost O-Iwa. Niemon killed his wife O-Iwa after she lost her beauty at the hands of someone else. However, the ghost of his wife continues to haunt him. Niemon loses his mind, made visible by his unkempt appearance, and flees into the woods. As he makes a fire, the ghost appears from the smoke. Scene from a kabuki play. Poem by Ônakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason., print maker: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, (mentioned on object), Yokogawa Takejiro, (mentioned on object), publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô, (mentioned on object
Ogura Imitation of the One Hundred Poems (series title), Kamiya Niemon startled by the lantern ghost O-Iwa. Niemon killed his wife O-Iwa after she lost her beauty at the hands of someone else. However, the ghost of his wife continues to haunt him. Niemon loses his mind, made visible by his unkempt appearance, and flees into the woods. As he makes a fire, the ghost appears from the smoke. Scene from a kabuki play. Poem by Ônakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason., print maker: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, (mentioned on object), Yokogawa Takejiro, (mentioned on object), publisher: Ibaya Senzaburô, (mentioned on object), Japan, 1845 - 1846, paper, color woodcut
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