Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: Gojusantsugi Okazaki 五十三駅 岡崎 (The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, Okazaki) / Tamashima Ittou; Furuneko no kai; Inabanosuke 玉嶋逸当、古猫の怪、因幡之助
Date: 1847
Details: More information...
Source:
British Museum
Browse all 9,127 prints...
Description:
Colour woodblock print, oban yoko-e. Kabuki actors as cats performing the Okazaki scene in the play 'Onoe Kikugoro ichidai banashi' (尾上梅寿一代噺) performed at the Ichimura theater in the seventh month of Koka 4 (1847), with Ichimura Uzaemon XII (left) as Inaba no Suke, Onoe Kikugoro III as the ghost of the Old Cat, and Sawamura Sojuro V as Tamashima Itto.
