Utagawa Toyokuni I: - British Museum

Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Date: 1813

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Source: British Museum
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Colour woodblock print, oban. The first sheet of a polyptych from an album of 117 sheets. The kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro V as the samurai retainer Omi Kotoda, wearing swords; in an unstaged scene (‘mitate’) depicting the Soga brothers’ confrontation, (‘Soga no taimen’). For other designs from this polyptych see 1908,0718,0.81; 1915,0823,0.335; 1915,0823,0.336; and 1915,0823,0.337.

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