Utagawa Toyokuni I: polyptych print - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: polyptych print

Date: 1812

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Colour woodblock print, oban diptych. Ichikawa Ichizo I (right sheet) as Katsuma Takubei, standing with two swords and a folded fan, and Onoe Matsusuke II as Oboshi Rikiya, seated; in Act X of the play ‘Taiheiki chushin koshaku’ by Chikamatsu Hanji and others, performed at the Nakamura-za in the 7th month of 1812.

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