Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: pentaptych print
Date: 1847-1853
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock pentaptych print, oban tate-e. The Five Otokodate (chivalrous gentlemen), depicted by five famous kabuki actors in grey and white striped robes with bamboo flutes in their girdles standing beneath branches of cherry blossom: 1) Sawamura Sojuro V carrying a tobacco pipe and holding his robe, 2) Nakamura Utaemon IV crouching with his hands on his head, 3) Ichikawa Evizo V (Danjuro VII) standing with his hands concealed in his robe,
