Adachigahara hitotsuya no zu The Lonely House on Adachi Moor, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1856 (3rd month)

Woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. An old woman holding a knife in one hand and a jar in the other about to murder her captive daughter, a young man (an incarnation of the bodhisattva kannon) watches from behind a screen. Date: 1856 (3rd month). Dimensions: Height: 37 centimetres (l); ; Height: 37 centimetres (r); Width: 25.40 centimetres (l); Width: 25.40 centimetres (r). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Adachigahara hitotsuya no zu 安達原一ツ家之圖 (The Lonely House on Adachi Moor) (BM 2008,3037.18231)