Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I
Title: polyptych print
Date: 1813
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock print, oban. The second sheet from a polyptych. The kabuki actor Bando Mitsugoro III as the samurai retainer Yawata Saburo, seated with two swords; from an unstaged scene (‘mitate’) depicting the Soga brothers’ confrontation, (‘Soga no taimen’). For other designs in this polyptych see 1915,0823,0.334; 1915,0823,0.335; 1915,0823,0.336; and 1915,0823,0.337.
