Galerie Christian Collin

(1835 - 1900) 

Okuma

Woodblock print

Impression on Japan paper.

Sheet: vertical ôban (352 x 249 mm), middle part of a triptych.

Condition: wrinkles, the red of the kimono streamed.

This central panel depicts Okuma, the daughter of a wood merchant, who in order to escape an arranged marriage tries to run away with her lover Chushichi. The barber Shinza learns of the lovers' planned elopement and kidnaps the girl in exchange for a ransom.