Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 46579

mitate-e

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Toyokuni I歌川豊国
Date / 年代: 1790
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital record / 画像記録: 750 × 3789 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: British Museum
Published by / 公開者: 星野アカリ
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, pillar print (‘hashira-e’). A parody of the most famous scene in Act VII, ‘Gion Ichiriki Jaya’, from the kabuki play ‘Kanadehon Chushingura’. As a man (parodying Oboshi Yuranosuke) unrolls a long letter scroll, one girl below (parodying Ono Kudayu) secretly reads the end of the scroll as it trails over a bamboo fence, while a second girl above (parodying Okaru) also peeks at it from a nearby balcony.

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