当世恋歌八契　お七と吉三郎, The Lovers Oshichi and Kichisaburo, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1800, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 15 1/4 in. (38. 7 cm) ; W. 9 3/4 in. (24. 8 cm), Prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753? ?1806), The lurid story of this ill-fated pair was made into a popular Kabuki drama. Oshichi, the daughter of a greengrocer, fell in love with Kichisaburo when she was evacuated to a temple where he was a boy servant during the great 1683 fire in Edo