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courtesan Takao - man watching through hedge
Kunisada I (Toyokuni III), 1849, Wood cut
courtesan Takao - man watching through hedge
courtesan Takao - man watching through hedge
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339
Title
Ashikaga Yorikane attacks courtesan Takao, scene from the Kabuki play 'Date kurabe'
Description
Actor portrait of Ichikawa Danjuro VIII. The characters of Ashikaga Yorikane, holding a sword, and the sumo wrestler known as Kinagawa Tanizo, depicted peeping through the hedge, would have both been performed by Ichikawa Danjuro VIII in a fast costume change. The villain in this play is easily identifiable by his unusual kimono which is patterned with blue bats and bamboo upon a black ground.
Artist / maker
Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
Date
1849
Size
24.4 x 36.5 cm.
Type
Wood cut
Location
Art and Design Library
The following information appears on the print:
Signed: Kochoro Toyokuni ga
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Censor's seals: Fuku and Muramatsu (1849 - 1853).
This is one of a set of 50 prints donated to Edinburgh City Libraries by Marie Ferguson Dyer in honour of her father Henry Dyer. Dyer was a Scottish engineer who became the first Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1872.
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Dai Nippon (Great Japan)
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