Title

Portrait of Takahashi Oden, 1879. Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika.

Caption

Portrait of Takahashi Oden, 1879. Takahashi Oden (1848-1879) was known for killing a man and being the last woman in Japan to be put to death by beheading. She was also suspected of poisoning her husband.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B14_156

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

8,3Mb (595,8Kb) / 4,6in x 7,0in / 1377 x 2100 (300dpi)

Keywords

unusual woman women woman people arts country law art crime museum color KILLER dead Japan Japanese death location century criminal murder print concept printing B&W slaughter MONOCHROME murderer beheaded decapitated Colour death sentence 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black decapitation MURDERESS nineteenth century beheading executed Meiji period murdering slaughtering Ukiyo-e woodblock print portrait Los Angeles County Museum of Art Meiji era colour woodblock print Heritage Art Print 19th-century Kobayashi Kiyochika Kiyochika Kobayashi Kiyochika Kobayashi LACMA Takahashi Oden Oden Takahashi