Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 2533
The 12 Months
水無月
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Kunisada歌川国貞
- Date / 年代
- 1840
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 750 × 1081 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- British Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- 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 diptych. The kabuki actors (from left) Ichimura Uzaemon XII and Nakamura Utaemon IV as two ‘yakko’ footmen dancing at a summer festival, a dance section called ‘yatoi yakko’, illustrating the 6th month (‘minazuki’), from a hengemono dance featuring the twelve months called ‘Hana kyodai nenju gyoji’; performed at the Ichimura-za in the 3rd month of 1840 (Tenpo 11).
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