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- Creators: The Pride Publishing Company
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ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1835 to 1841
Description
Triptych depicting backstage preparations during a kabuki play.
ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Horiei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1874
DescriptionThis newspaper nishiki-e depicts the prelude to the 1860 Sakuradamon Incident. Mito clan conspirators Saitō Kenmotsu and Ōzeki Washichirō lie in wait for the target of their assassination plot: the chief minister to the Tokugawa government, Ii Naosuke.