Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: Kagero 蜻蛉 (No. 52 The Drake Fly) / Genji kumo ukiyoe awase 源氏雲浮世絵合 (Ukiyo-e Parallels for the Cloudy Chapters of the Tale of Genji)
Date: 1845-1846
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. The kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as the wrestler Akitsushima, seated cross-legged and holding a long scroll with a brush in his mouth. Poem inscribed above.
