Utagawa Toyokuni I: - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Date: 1807

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Colour woodblock print, centre sheet from an oban triptych. The kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII in an unidentified role standing with the two swords of a samurai, in the play 'Mutsu no hana Yashima no gaijin' (also read 'Kigoto no hana Yashima no gaijin'), by Katsu Hyozo I (Tsuruya Nanboku IV), performed at the Ichimura-za in the 11th month of 1807. Other sheets in this triptych are 1906,1220,0.407 and 1906,1220,0.412.

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