three separate sheets; demon-faced figure at right, with green skin and yellow horns, wearing a bold patterned garment in red, yellow, green and purple with large yellow tie at waist, and wearing white tabi socks; seated couple at center with woman, wearing white kimono with dark and light blue fan-like pattern with brown foliage, leaning into man wearing purple and white checked kimono; frowning man wearing brown and blue peering around a screen depicting demons around a large cauldron; moon in ULC

A Rustic Genji by a Fraudulent Murasaki, May 1884

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Text by Tentendō Shujin after Ryūtei Tanehiko.

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Title
A Rustic Genji by a Fraudulent Murasaki
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.157a-c
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 463; Marks, Genji's World in Japanese Woodblock Prints (2012), p. 154 no. 146, G084; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), fig. 128, p. 291.
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three separate sheets; demon-faced figure at right, with green skin and yellow horns, wearing a bold patterned garment in red, yellow, green and purple with large yellow tie at waist, and wearing white tabi socks; seated couple at center with woman, wearing white kimono with dark and light blue fan-like pattern with brown foliage, leaning into man wearing purple and white checked kimono; frowning man wearing brown and blue peering around a screen depicting demons around a large cauldron; moon in ULC