Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 2556
Rokkasen sugata no irodori (The Six Poet Immortals in Colourful Guises)
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Kunisada歌川国貞
- Date / 年代
- 1831
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 750 × 1092 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- British Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 森川ミドリ
- 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, right sheet of an oban diptych. The kabuki actor Iwai Kumesaburo II as Ono no Komachi, standing with a large ‘hiogi’ fan and dressed in the multi-layered court costume ‘juni hitoe’, in the section ‘Narihira’ from the five-part ‘hengemono’ dance ‘Rokkasen sugata no irodori’, (originally read ‘Uta awase sugata no irodori’), with lyrics by Matsumoto Koji and music by Kineya Rokuzaemon X and Kiyomoto Saibei; performed at the Nakamura-za from the 3rd month of 1831 (Tenpo 2).
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