Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 20689

The Flourishing of Dance Drama in the East (Edo) (Odori kieyo To-e no Sakae)

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Kunisada歌川国貞
Date / 年代: 1851
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / scholten
Digital record / 画像記録: 640 × 318 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Scholten Japanese Art
Published by / 公開者: 朝倉レン
Rights / 権利: No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記: Scholten Japanese Art

Catalog note / 解説

depicting the interior of a kabuki theater, the actors on the stage in the costumes of characters from several different plays; to the left, Ichikawa Danjuro commands the hanamachi in the Shibaraku costume, while the lively audience itself plays the central role of the composition, signed at left, Ichiyosai Hinashi Toyokuni ga with Toshidama seal, the publisher cartouche below, Noshoya Yasubei (c. 1851-70), and date seal on top margin of each sheet uma-shichi (year of the horse, seventh month), 1858

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