Utagawa Toyokuni I: diptych print - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: diptych print

Date: 1812

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Colour woodblock print, oban diptych. The kabuki actors Ichikawa Ichizo I as Fujikawa Mizuemon, standing with a sword and being confronted by a snake on a ‘go’ board, and Nakamura Utaemon III as Ogishi Kurando, seated; in the play ‘Kameyama zome yomikiri koshaku’ by Sakurada Jisuke II, performed at the Nakamura-za in the 4th month of 1812.

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