Utagawa Toyokuni I: polyptych print - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: polyptych print

Date: 1808-1812 (circa)

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Colour woodblock print, oban. The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Lord Sugawara Michizane (‘Sugawara Michizane-ko’), seated at the entrance to a cave with a scroll laid out in front of him and holding a Buddhist 'tokko' in one hand, and Iwai Matsunosuke I as his son Kan Shusai; in a play relating to ‘Sugawara denju tenarai kagami’.

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