Nakamura Tomijūrō II as the Wife (Nyōbō) Oryū, actually the Spirit of a Willow Tree (Yanagi no sei) 「女房おりう実柳ノ精」　二代目中村富十郎

Object Details

• Artist

  Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (1786-1865)

• Publisher

  Kiya Sojiro 木屋宗次郎 (active 1851-1904)

• Block carver

  Ota Tashichi (Komakichi) 太田多七 (active ca. 1834-1882)

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection

• Type

  Print

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• Name

  Ota, Komakichi, Utagawa, Kunisada, Kiya, Sojiro

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints