Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 2562
Artwork 2562
沢村訥升の火
- 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 × 1050 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- British Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 水野ナギ
- 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. The kabuki actor Sawamura Tossho I as the rabbit, striking a flint to make sparks as he chases after a tanuki badger carrying firewood on its back, from the folktale ‘Kachikachiyama’, the second section of a five-part hengemono dance illustrating the ‘Five elements’ of wood, fire, earth, metal and water; this section illustrating ‘fire’. The entire dance was called ‘Hina asobi wago no aisho’ (also read ‘Hina asobi wago no aioi’), performed at the Nakamura-za in the 3rd month of 1840 (Tenpo 11).
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