Utagawa Toyokuni I: diptych print - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: diptych print

Date: 1813

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Colour woodblock print, an oban diptych from an album of 117 sheets. The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kingoro, standing with a folded fan, and Iwai Hanshiro V as Kasane; in the play ‘Shikisemono Soga no datezome’, (also ‘Shikisezome Soga no datezome’), by Tsuruya Nanboku IV, performed at the Morita-za in the 1st month of 1813.

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