Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 96479
triptych print
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Toyoshige歌川豊重
- Date / 年代
- 1824
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 750 × 1169 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- British Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 水野ナギ
- 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. The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Iwafuji standing in front of a palanquin, holding one end of a straw sandal (right sheet), Iwai Shijaku I as Onoe (mitate Onoe) kneeling, holding the other end of the sandal (centre), and Iwai Hanshiro V watching on from behind a votive stone lantern, seated, holding a letter scroll; a version of the 'Sandal beating scene' (zori uchi no ba), from the play 'Botan ni cho itsuka fumibako (alternate reading 'Botan ni cho hatsu ga fumibako), also called 'Zoho Kagamiyama', by Tsuruya Nanboku IV; performed at the Ichimura-za in the 3rd month of 1824. The characters are depicted in front of a black lacquered palanquin…
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