Utagawa Toyokuni I: - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Date: 1799

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Colour woodblock print, oban. The kabuki actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Shirotae, wife of Genzaemon, and Arashi Hinasuke II as Akita Jonosuke, wearing a headband ('yamai hachimaki') and dancing with a folded fan; in the play ‘Utsukushiki yuki no sekai’ by Katsu Hyozo I, (Tsuruya Nanboku IV), performed at the Ichimura-za in the 11th month of 1799.

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