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Hitomaru Oroku (人丸お六) and Jirai Taro (地雷太郎)

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Japanese colour woodblock prints showing a woman in a straw cape and a man in the distance

Hitomaru Oroku (人丸お六) and Jirai Taro (地雷太郎)

Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1854
Maker: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳)
Medium: O-ban Nishiki-e (大判錦絵, large-format coloured print)
Object number: O.11.4
DescriptionTwo famous and popular thieves Hitomaru Oroku (人丸お六) and Jirai Taro (地雷太郎) are depicted. Jiraiya (自来也 or 児雷也) is a fictional bandit or ninja who appears in late-Edo period Yomihon books (読本, a tale of fantastic in the Edo period).