当世恋歌八契　お七と吉三郎, The Lovers Oshichi and Kichisaburo, Kitagawa Utamaro, ca. 1800

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当世恋歌八契　お七と吉三郎, The Lovers Oshichi and Kichisaburo, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1800, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 15 1/4 in. ( cm); W. 9 3/4 in. ( cm), Prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?–1806), The lurid story of this ill-fated pair was made into a popular Kabuki drama. Oshichi, the daughter of a greengrocer, fell in love with Kichisaburo when she was evacuated to a temple where he was a boy servant during the great 1683 fire in Edo

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