Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 47405
The first sheet of a polyptych from an album of 117 sheets
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Toyokuni I歌川豊国
- Date / 年代
- 1813
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 750 × 1128 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- British Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 朝倉レン
- 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 first sheet of a polyptych from an album of 117 sheets. The kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro V as the samurai retainer Omi Kotoda, wearing swords; in an unstaged scene (‘mitate’) depicting the Soga brothers’ confrontation, (‘Soga no taimen’). For other designs from this polyptych see 1908,0718,0.81; 1915,0823,0.335; 1915,0823,0.336; and 1915,0823,0.337.
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