"The Actors Ichikawa Kuzō III as Naosuke Gonbei Kataoka Gadō III as Tamiya Iemon, Onoe Kikugorō V as Yagashira Yomoshichi and Onoe Kikugorō V as Oiwa and Kobotoke Kōhei in the tale The Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan (Tōkaidō Yotsuya ghost story)”

NamePrint

Artist Kunichika Toyohara (Japanese, 1835 - 1990)

Designer Arakawa Yasohachi

Block carver Hori Yü

Publisher Fukuda Kumajirö

CultureJapanese

Date1884

Place madeJapan, East Asia, Asia

MediumPaper, ink

DimensionsWidth with all three prints set together: 14 9/16 × 29 5/16 in. (37 × 74.5 cm)
Each individual print: 14 9/16 × 9 13/16 in. (37 × 25 cm)
Central print opened: 17 15/16 × 9 13/16 in. (45.5 × 25 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2018.71.a-c

Object numberFA.2018.71.1a-c

ProvenancePurchased by curator Felicia Katz-Harris at shop specializing in woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) in Kyoto; hand-carried to the United States by curator.

DescriptionThis wood block print is comprised of three pieces of paper that come together to create a single scene. In the proper right panel there is a male in a blue and white kimono. In the center panel there is another male in a solid blue kimono fighting with a second male character that is also wearing a blue kimono. This lower center figure disguises a flap, and on the other side of this flap there is a female ghost character. On the proper left side there is a male character holding a stick dressed in a yellow, brown, white and blue kimono.