Explore the Print details of this artwork, Female Ghost (Kunisada).
Size: ōban
Format: tate-e
Title: Yaeki hime no rei (八重機姫の霊); labelled Female Ghost by ROM
Subject: Yaeki hime no rei (Ghost of Princess Yaeki) character from the kabuki play Otogibanashi Hakata no imaori
Signature: Toyokuni ga (豊国画); in red oval toshidama-in cartouche, lower right corner
Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi, Eikyūdō; dark blue hanmoto mark in bottom left corner
Censor seals: 2 nanushi seals reading top to bottom Murata (村田) & Kinugasa (衣笠) indicating Murata Heiemon & Kinugasa Fusajiro
Date seal: rat 6, i.e. 6th month of 1852; oval in lower left corner, below censor seals
Genre: Yūrei-zu, yakusha-e
Provenance: donated to the ROM by linguist and librarian Leonard Wertheimer (1914-1998)
Yūrei-zu kabuki left Yūrei