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ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Chō Hori (Contributor) / 長彫 (Contributor) / Maruya Kyūshirō (Publisher) / 丸屋久四郎 (Publisher)
Created1864
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Triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II depicting a scene from the kabuki play Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji (The Imitation Murasaki and the Rustic Genji), a dramatization of a popular book by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭 種彦 that satirizes the Tale of Genji.

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ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1851
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This diptych shows the ghost of Asakura Tōgo 朝倉當吾 returning to haunt the man responsible for his death, the corrupt governor Orikoshi Tairyō 織越大領. A kappa (a traditional folk monster) tumbles comically at Orikoshi’s feet.

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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.