Men nagajuban with Oshun and Denbei, anonymous, 1920 - 1940 Canvas Print
Onderkimono (nagajuban) in front of a man with an ornament all over the plane of a depiction of a young man and woman holding hands in a hilly landscape with the temple Kiyomizu, she with a headscarf, he a straw hat, as illuminated by a paper lantern (andon) standing underneath, with an open and a dense book , and a hat and a stick. It is a reference to the story of the merchant Denbei who fell in love with the courtesan Oshun from the Gion district of Kyoto. He collected money to buy her free, but was forced to kill a rival, after which the pair fled to face the end together. Prior to their last journey, Oshun's brother led them out with a performance; he was a monkey trainer - his attributes are on the ground: the hat and stick where the monkey shows his skills. The book's title reads: "Chikagoro Kawara no tatehiki" ("Recent rivalry in Kawara"), the late 18th-century play about the love couple, based on a true event from 1703, in which the couple ended life by the Kamogawa River, on which the Kawara district is located. Brown silk with sencilled yuzen decoration. Cream silk lining.
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