Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: diptych print
Date: 1847 (circa)
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. A scene from the kabuki play 'Ichidai banashi'. The kabuki actor Sawamura Sojuro V (l) as Kiyoshichi on his knees holding a cloth and Nakayama Bungoro (?) as the maid O-ura standing behind him, Bando Shuka (r) as O-kaji, the wife of Danshichi, standing and holding a tobacco pipe with Nakayama Bungoro as the servant Denpachi in a striped robe kneeling behind.