Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 115879

triptych print

Artist / 作者: Katsukawa Shunsen勝川春扇
Date / 年代: 1811
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital record / 画像記録: 750 × 1211 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: British Museum
Published by / 公開者: 紫藤メイ
Rights / 権利: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; commercial license required
Attribution / 表記: Copyright The Trustees of the British Museum

Catalog note / 解説

Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors Bando Mitsugoro III as Watanabe no Tsuna, standing in geta clogs with an umbrella over one shoulder and a tobacco pouch suspended from his obi, holding the top of the white banner of the Genji clan in one hand, Ichikawa Omezo I as Soma no Yoshikado, kneeling, with sword, grasping the other end of the banner, and Iwai Hanshiro V as Koyuki standing at the base of a bridge as she looks on. All three are depicted below the branches of a weeping willow tree. From the play ‘Seiwa Genji nidai no yumitori’ by Katsu Hyozo I (Tsuruya Nanboku IV); performed at the Nakamura-za in the 11th month of 1805.

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