Artist: Utagawa Kunisada
Title: Ichimura Uzaemon as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue 市村羽左衛門の梶原源太景季
Date: 1840
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock print, oban. The kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue, from Act II, ‘The Disinheriting of Genta’ (‘Genta kando’) (源太勘当), in the play ‘Hiragana seisuiki’ (ひらがな盛衰記), (also ‘Hirakana seisuiki’), by Bunkodo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Asada Kakei and Takeda Izumo II; performed at the Ichimura-za in the 4th month of 1840 (Tenpo 11). A poem by the actor above signed and sealed.