Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 91904

triptych print

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Kuniyasu歌川国安
Date / 年代: 1822-1824
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital record / 画像記録: 750 × 1126 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: British Museum
Published by / 公開者: 森川ミドリ
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 print, oban triptych from an album of 117 sheets. The kabuki actors Seki Sanjuro II (right sheet) as Onio Shinzaemon wearing the two swords of a samurai and holding a suit of armour under one arm, Onoe Kikugoro III as Kudo Saemon (Suketsune; centre), standing with a sheathed dagger in hand, wearing the ‘eboshi’ cap and large-sleeved, crested ‘daimon’ costume of a feudal lord with long ‘nagabakama’ trousers, and Ichikawa Monnosuke III as Hako’omaru, the childhood name of Soga no Goro, wearing the long ‘furisode’ sleeves of a young boy, in an unidentified play. All are seen beneath flowering plum blossom trees.

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