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Ōiko Moves a Large Rock
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Description
Ōiko is shown secretly moving a great rock to block the water supply to fields belonging to her fellow villagers. The text explains that she is doing this out of revenge as her spiteful neighbours had directed the water away from her fields.
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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
- 36.8 x 25.1 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.
- EA1983.91
Location
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- currently in research collection
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