Sugitoya shichiningiri no zu.
Tokyo: Yamamura Kinzaburo, Meiji 13-8 [August] 1880.
Sensational series of three narrative color woodblock prints, which together illustrate one of the most notorious crimes in Meiji-era Japan, published a few weeks after the incident. The text cartouche at the head of the leftmost sheet explains the gruesome scene:
A young.....
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