Japanese Print "Rokkasen sugata no irodori (The Six Poet Immortals in Colourful Guises)" by Utagawa Kunisada

Japanese Print "Rokkasen sugata no irodori (The Six Poet Immortals in Colourful Guises)" by Utagawa Kunisada, 歌川国貞 (Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III) (1786-1864))

Artist:Utagawa Kunisada

Title:Rokkasen sugata no irodori (The Six Poet Immortals in Colourful Guises)

Date:1831

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Source:British Museum
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Colour woodblock print, right sheet of an oban diptych. The kabuki actor Iwai Kumesaburo II as Ono no Komachi, standing with a large ‘hiogi’ fan and dressed in the multi-layered court costume ‘juni hitoe’, in the section ‘Narihira’ (業平) from the five-part ‘hengemono’ dance ‘Rokkasen sugata no irodori’, (六歌仙容彩) (originally read ‘Uta awase sugata no irodori’), with lyrics by Matsumoto Koji and music by Kineya Rokuzaemon X and Kiyomoto Saibei; performed at the Nakamura-za from the 3rd month of 1831 (Tenpo 2).

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