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THE FEMALE BANDIT OMATSU AT KASAMATSU PASS
by Yoshitora Utagawa (a.c.1850-1880)

	Artist:	Yoshitora Utagawa (a.c.1850-1880) — 歌川芳虎
	Title:	THE FEMALE BANDIT OMATSU AT KASAMATSU PASS
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	1850 (circa)
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Not Set
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Not Set
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Triptych
	Format (this edition):	Triptych
	DB artwork code:	47934
	Notes (first edition)?:	Description from Miwa Japanese Art: Description Fascinating triptych of woodblock prints made around 1850 by the artist Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川芳虎), produced by the publisher Yamadaya Shojiro (山田屋庄次郎), owner of Kinkyodo (錦橋堂), and entitled “The Legend of Omatsu at Kasamatsu Pass” (笠松峠於松が傳). The outlaw Omatsu (於松), often referred to by the epithet “the evil Omatsu” or “the female demon-robber”, is a character from the Kabuki theater loosely based on an historical figure. She is at the centre of a number of thrilling, but quite contradictory, stories. On this specific occasion we see her depicted, on the left, as she is about to fall victim, together with the band of bandits led by her, of the revenge of the samurai Natsume Sentaro (夏目仙太郎), depicted in the center, in the same mountain pass where the woman had met Sentaro’s father, who had been murdered by her.
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