Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: triptych print

Date: 1824

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Source: British Museum
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Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Iwafuji standing with a bamboo sword (right sheet), Iwai Hanshiro V as Ohatsu (centre) and Iwai Shijaku I as Onoe holding an open fan, in the ‘Fencing Match’ (Shinai uchi no ba) from the play ‘Botan ni cho itsuka fumibako’ (alternate reading ‘Botan ni cho hatsu ga fumibako’), also called ‘Zoho Kagamiyama’, by Tsuruya Nanboku IV; performed at the Ichimura-za in the 3rd month of 1824. The three characters are portrayed within a mansion room, in front of sliding doors painted with a flowering cherry tree.

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