Title : Bonsai Tree and Priest - Kabuki

Artist : Toyohara Kunichika

Date : Ca. 1870s.

Details : Toyohara Kunichika: Bonsai Tree and Priest - Kabuki - Artelino

Source : artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description : "Hachi no Ki no Taii" Genzaemon (middle: played by Bando Hikosaburo) and his wife Hakumyo (Sawamura Tossho) cut up their precious bonsai tree for firewood to warm up a strange guest in a cold snowy night. The stranger was the regent Tokiyori Nyudo (played by Ichikawa Sadanji. Historically, the regent Hojo Tokiyori,1226-63) who disguised as a monk to see the lives of his people. This famous episode has been depicted in numerous plays and pictures.

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