Utagawa Toyokuni I: polyptych print - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: polyptych print

Date: 1818

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Source: British Museum
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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.

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