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Princess Tagoto playing a koto - origami frogs
Kunisada I (Toyokuni III), 1852, Wood cut
Princess Tagoto playing a koto - origami frogs
Princess Tagoto playing a koto - origami frogs
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341
Title
Princess Tagoto playing a koto from 'The Tale of Gallant Jiraiya' ('Jiraiya goketsu monogatari').
Description
Actor portrait of Iwai Kumesaburo III. The female character, Princess Tagoto, is depicted playing a musical instrument, the koto (Japanese zither), in an ornately decorated chamber. Origami frogs have come to life and are shown hopping across the ground in front of her. The scene depicts the fantastical results of the magician Jiraiya's conjuring or 'toad magic'.
This print is part of an incomplete diptych which would have included the figure of the magician (to the left). The Kabuki play is 'The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya' ('Jiraiya gokestsu monogatari').
Artist / maker
Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
Date
1852
Size
35.5 x 24.5 cm.
Type
Wood cut
Location
Art and Design Library
The following information appears on the print:
Signed: Toyokuni ga
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Censor's seals: Fuku and Muramatsu (1849 - 1853).
Date Seal: Rat year, 6th month (1852)
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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