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The loyal wife Kesa Gozen cutting her hair
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Description
Kesa Gozen was the loyal wife of the warrior Watanabe Wataru, who lived in the 1100s. When her cousin and admirer, Endo Morito, threatened to kill her husband and make her his wife, she dressed her hair like a man’s and impersonated her husband so that she would be murdered instead.
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Details
- Series
- Lives of Wise and Heroic Women
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- Date
- c. 1842
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
- Associated people
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Ibaya Senzaburō (active c. 1820s - c. 1870s) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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frame 59.6 x 44.5 x 1.7 cm (height x width x depth)
print 35 x 25 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 1983.
- Accession no.
- EA1983.90
Location
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- currently in research collection
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