The Dance of the Beach Maidens, Edo period (1615?1868), early 19th century, Japan, Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, Overall: 15 1/4 x 29 1/2 in. (38. 7 x 74. 9 cm), Prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753? ?1806), Although Narihira's story became a literary work in the ninth century, no textual record of his elder brother, Yukihira, is known before the late fourteenth century, when the famous playwright Kanze Zeami used the legend of the exiled courtier as the basis for a Noh drama