Artist: Utagawa Kunisada

Title: Rogetsu 臘月 / Junitsuki no uchi 十二月ノ内 / Ichimura uzaemon in Yuki no Shakkyo 中村歌右衛門の雪の石橋、市村羽左衛門の雪の石橋

Date: 1840 (Tenpo 11)

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Source: British Museum
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Colour woodblock print, oban diptych. The kabuki actors (from left) Ichimura Uzaemon XII and Nakamura Utaemon IV as the spirits of two shishi lions dancing in a snowbound landscape with peonies, a dance section called ‘yuki no shakkyo’ (雪の石橋), illustrating the 12th month (‘rogetsu’) (臘月), from a hengemono dance featuring the twelve months called ‘Hana kyodai nenju gyoji’ (花きょうだい十二月所作); performed at the Ichimura-za in the 3rd month of 1840 (Tenpo 11).

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