Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gonpachi
1868–1943
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 30.6 x 16.6 cm (12 1/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912) to Shōwa period (1926–89)
About
This unsigned work shows two actors portraying the "based on real events" story of ill-fated lovers. It may have been inspired by the work of print designer Kitagawa Utamaro on the same theme.