Japanese Print "mitate-e / print" by Utagawa Toyokuni I
Artist:Utagawa Toyokuni I
Title:mitate-e / print
Date:1790 (circa)
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Source:British Museum
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Description:
Colour woodblock, pillar print (‘hashira-e’). A parody of the most famous scene in Act VII, ‘Gion Ichiriki Jaya’, from the kabuki play ‘Kanadehon Chushingura’. As a man (parodying Oboshi Yuranosuke) unrolls a long letter scroll, one girl below (parodying Ono Kudayu) secretly reads the end of the scroll as it trails over a bamboo fence, while a second girl above (parodying Okaru) also peeks at it from a nearby balcony.
