The lonely house on Adachi Moor, An old woman holding a large knife, against a black background with gourd tendrils. In the square cartouche a poem. This print is a scene from the kabuki play 'The Lonely House' (Hitotsuya), with actor Onoe Kikugorô V in the role of the old murderous witch of the Adachi plains, performed in the fourth month of 1890 at the Ichimura Theatre. (triptych), print maker: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, (mentioned on object), Wada Yujiro, (mentioned on object), publisher: Akiyama Buemon, (mentioned on object), Japan, Jan-1890, paper, colour woodcut, height 350 mm × width 237 mm

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