Title : No. 53 Unuma 鵜沼 / Kisokaido rokujoku tsugi no uchi 木曾街道六十九次之内 (Sixty-Nine Post Stations of the Kisokaido)

Artist : Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Date : 1852 (7th month)

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Unuma Station. The farmer Yoemon murdering his deformed wife Kasane with a sickle under a willow tree on the river bank, her spirit rising and taking shape above him. A figure watches from a bridge in the distance (Inset: rocky landscape with waterfall and distant mountain).

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