Untitled Japanese Print by Utagawa Kuniyasu
Artist:Utagawa Kuniyasu
Date:1824
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Source:British Museum
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Colour woodblock print, centre sheet of an oban triptych. The kabuki actor Segawa Kikunojo V as Princess Morokoshi (‘Morokoshi hime’), holding out a circular mirror, crouching by the edge of a pond from which jets of water are shooting up; from the play ‘Oto ni kiku icho no kusemono’ by Katsui Genpachi and others, performed at the Nakamura-za in the 8th month of 1824.
