Author: Takeuchi Keishu (武内桂舟).
Subject: Widow and widower (futari yamome, 二人やもめ).
Series: from the 15th volume of the bungei club magazine (bungei kurabu go maki, 文芸倶楽部五巻).
Number: 14.
Genre: kuchi-e (口絵)
Size: medium (chūban, 中版).
Publisher: Hakabunkan (博文館).
Period: c. 1899.
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: TUK01001

Condition: good condition. Color is clear and vivid with good saturation. It shows some sign of ageing but there are not remarkable wrinkles nor crease. One noticeable stain in the left bottom corner. Details as in the picture. It has not been backed nor trimmed.

A woman mourning her dead husband, whose clothes have been left on his grave as for protecting him fromthe cold breeze blowing through the cemtery.
Probably a kuchie in memory of the Japanese writer Hirotsu Ryūrō (広津柳浪), lived during the Meiji period and credited for having been the creator of the tragic novel (hisan shōsetsu, 悲惨小説) genre in the Japanese literature.
A samurai class offspring who choose to live as a writer turning his back to a secure carreer of diplomat and bureaucrat.