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Actors Segawa Michinosuke and Sawamura Gennosuke
Toyokuni, 1801, Wood cut
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Title
Actors Segawa Michinosuke and Sawamura Gennosuke
Description
This print depicts two named Kabuki actors, Segawa Michinosuke and Sawamura Gennosuke in the roles of the lovers, Courtesan Keisuke Matsuyama and Wankyu. The male character wears a black kimono that bears the 'kaemon' crest of Sawamura Sojuro. Segawa Michinosuke is playing the role of a courtesan; actors who specialised in performing female roles were known as 'onnagata'. All Kabuki actors were required by law to shave their forelocks, and it became a convention for onnagata to cover the shaved area of their head with a purple cloth. Both characters hold sake cups.
Artist / maker
Toyokuni
Date
1801
Size
38 x 25.8 cm.
Type
Wood cut
Location
Art and Design Library
The following information appears on the print:
Signed: Toyokuni ga
Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I
Censor's Seal: aratame
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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