Japanese Print "polyptych print" by Utagawa Toyokuni I
Artist:Utagawa Toyokuni I
Title:polyptych print
Date:1818
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Source:British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock print, one sheet of an oban polyptych. The kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro V as Kaminari Shokuro, one of the 'Five Chivalrous Men' ('Gonin otoko'), standing before a bank of iris flowers, with a sword and a shakuhachi flute; in the play ‘Shiirezome karigane gomon’ by Sakurada Jisuke II performed at the Nakamura-za in the 5th month of 1818.
