Katsukawa Shuntei: print / frame - British Museum

Artist: Katsukawa Shuntei

Title: print / frame

Date: 1795

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Colour woodblock print, hashira-e. The kabuki actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Konami and Iwai Kumesaburo I as Rikiy,a with a clock in the background, in Act II (‘ni danme’) from the play 'Kanadehon Chushingura' by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senryu, performed at the Miyako-za in the 4th month of 1795. In lacquered wood frame.

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