Japanese Print "Ichikawa Danjuro as Shirai Gonpachi, Sawamura Tanosuke as Komurasaki 市川団十郎の白井権八、沢村田之助の小紫" by Utagawa Kunisada
Artist:Utagawa Kunisada
Title:Ichikawa Danjuro as Shirai Gonpachi, Sawamura Tanosuke as Komurasaki 市川団十郎の白井権八、沢村田之助の小紫
Date:1813-1816 (signature)
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Source:British Museum
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Colour woodblock print, oban diptych from an album of 117 sheets. The kabuki actors (from left) Sawamura Tanosuke II as the courtesan Komurasaki, about to play the koto, and Ichikawa Danjuro VII as her lover Shirai Gonpachi, about to play the shakuhachi, in an unstaged (‘mitate’) scene.