Catalog record · 目録番号 86103
The Joruri character Ohan with a doll
Catalog note / 解説
During the Kyoho era (1716-1736), two lovers committed suicide at the Katsura River in Kyoto, and the incident became famous because of the difference in age between the middle-aged man, Choemon, and the teenaged girl, Ohan. The story became the subject of a number of Kabuki and Joruri plays (the latter are puppet plays with narrative chanting accompanied by the shamisen, or three-stringed Japanese lute). This print depicts Ohan in everyday life in the Joruri drama 'Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami'. She gazes tenderly at a doll she is holding in her lap. The artist Kikukawa Eizan (1787-1867) produced many superior prints of beautiful women. Materials: Colour print from woodblocks
Image record / 画像情報
VAM · ca. 1810 · vam
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