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The loyal wife Kesa Gozen cutting her hairfront

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The loyal wife Kesa Gozen cutting her hair

  • 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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    Series
    Lives of Wise and Heroic Women
    Associated place
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Date
    c. 1842
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
    Associated people
    Ibaya Senzaburō (active c. 1820s - c. 1870s) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    frame 59.6 x 44.5 x 1.7 cm (height x width x depth)
    print 35 x 25 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 1983.
    Accession no.
    EA1983.90

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    • currently in research collection

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