Utagawa Kunisada: Ichikawa Danjuro as Sukeroku 市川団十郎の助六 - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada

Title: Ichikawa Danjuro as Sukeroku 市川団十郎の助六

Date: 1819

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Colour woodblock print, one sheet from an oban polyptych. The kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Sukeroku, holding out a tray of soba noodles that he has just bought from the soba seller Fukuyama, in the play ‘Sukeroku yukari no Edo zakura’ (助六所縁江戸桜), one of the ‘Kabuki Juhachiban’; performed at the Tamagawa-za in the 3rd month of 1819 (Bunsei 2). With dialogue above.

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