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Description Woodcut print Actors Iwai Kumesaburō I and Ichikawa Yaozō III as Ohan and Chōemon, by Japanese artist Utagawa Toyokuni, circa 1800; owned by the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; a rare, oversized print format called "nagaban". It shows the two principle characters of the popular kabuki play Love Suicide of Ohan and Chōemon at the Katsura River". The play is about a true story of a doomed relationship between a 38-year-old silk merchant and his 14-year-old neighbor.
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Source Brooklyn Museum website: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/utagawa/toyokuni.php
Author Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)
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