Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 47343
The kabuki actor Sawamura Sojuro III in an unidentified role, but probably Mutsuzo, in reality Genza
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Toyokuni I歌川豊国
- Date / 年代
- 1797
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 750 × 1195 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- British Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 紫藤メイ
- 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 Sojuro III in an unidentified role, but probably Mutsuzo, in reality Genzaemon, holding a votive painting ('ema') of a horse, with a tobacco pouch and pipe case hanging from his obi sash; in the ‘Miyamairi musubu kamigaki’ scene from the play ‘Yuki onna keizu no hachinoki’ by Namiki Gohei I, performed at the Kiri-za in the 11th month of 1797.
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