Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 47413

triptych print

Artist / 作者
Utagawa Toyokuni I歌川豊国
Date / 年代
1816
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital record / 画像記録
750 × 1118 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
British Museum
Published by / 公開者
白石カナ
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 triptych. Three kabuki actors dressed for travel and seen resting on their journey through an imaginary landscape (mitate). Bando Mitsugoro III (right sheet), with a short sword at his side and a tobacco pouch and pipe case hanging from his obi sash, standing before a pond with a small shrine named ‘Shuka no yashiro’ in the right background, and a larger shrine named ‘Danjo Yamato ryo dai myojin’ on the left; Iwai Hanshiro V (centre sheet) seated before the same pond with a wide travelling hat tied on his head and a cloth (tenugui) over one shoulder, with a view of ‘Mimasugatake’ mountain in the background; and Ichikawa Danjuro VII (left sheet) holding another w…

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