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One of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays) depicting a scene from the play Ebira by an unknown playwright.  A spray of plum blossoms sits in Kajiwara's quiver.

The Play - Ebira

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 21.

Coming to the forest of Ikuta with two companions, a priest meets a man who tells him the story connected with a famous plum tree there - "in the great battle which took place near the forest between the Taira and Minamoto clans, the warrior Kajiwara Kagesue broke off a spray of plum blossom from the tree and carried it in his quiver as his emblem."  He then reveals that he is the ghost of the warrior and disappears.  In the second act he appears in his true form and tells of the torments to which warriors are doomed in the after-life.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#135
Title	Ebira 箙 (The Quiver)
Series	Nōga taikan 能画大鑑 (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays or A Great Mirror of Noh Pictures or A Great Collection of Noh Pictures)
Artist	Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Signature	Kōgyo
Seal	Kōgyo seal
Date	1925-1930
Edition	unknown
Publisher	Seibi Shoten (or Seibi Shoin), Tokyo
Carver	Uchida Eikichi
Printer	Yoshida Takesaburō
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	good - light wrinkling; not backed
Genre	ukiyo-e
Miscellaneous
Format	oban yoko-e
H x W Paper	10 x 14 1/8 in. (25.4 x 35.9 cm)
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