Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: Nakamura Shikan as Sanbaso 中村芝翫の三番叟
Date: 1833
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock print, oban tate-e. Farewell comedy (Nagori Kyogen), showing Nakamura Utaemon IV (Shikan) (a poem above his head) in an ornate and multi-coloured robe and a high and pointed hat performing the sambaso, a comic dance, in the play 'Matakuru haru suzuna no tanemaki' (再春菘種蒔) performed at the Nakamura theatre, Edo from the 9th month of 1833 (Tempo 4).
