Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I
Title: diptych print
Date: 1813
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock print, an oban diptych from an album of 117 sheets. The kabuki actors Matsumoto Koshiro V (left sheet) as Dotetsu, standing on a balcony with a scroll in his hands and a short sword in his mouth, and Iwai Hanshiro V (right) as Shinzo Takao; 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.