"Yumemusubu Cho Ni Torioi"is the title of the Kabuki play by Kawatake Mokuami. A love story with Okoyo and Akogi Gennojo belonging to different class. Based on a true story about Samurai who loved a not appropriate girl and got punished, Kawatake Mokuami gave an arrangement. In this artwork, Gennojo is making a slight eye motion while Okoyo is looking back toward him on the bridge.
Folds and wrinkle near the left margins of each pieces, a tear and wears on the left margine of the left piece, stained, wormholes
Utagawa Kunisada (1786 - 1865) (also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III) was the most popular, prolific and financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.
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