Yoshitoshi - Hanai Oume Stabbing Minekichi

Yoshitoshi Tsukioka

From the series The Post Dispatch Newspaper (Yûbin hôchi shinbun). This is from the series "Personalities of Recent Times". These prints were distributed to subscribers.

On a rainy summer night in 1887 a murder took place in one of Tokyo’s entertainment districts. A geisha known as Hanai Oume stabbed her lover to death. Oume’s open trial—shortly before the courts were opened to the general public for the first time—attracted widespread interest and caused a sensation.

Publisher: Yamato Shimbunsha

Date: 1875

Condition: Very good color and impression, full borders, not backed. Some stains on the right side, slight horizontal fold mark in the middle.

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