Four actors at a shrine: two as menials or attendants: one as a fashionable young samurai and one as a girl. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850.

  • Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861.
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[1847/1850]
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35343i
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Four actors at a shrine: two as menials or attendants: one as a fashionable young samurai and one as a girl. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The young man and woman wear long-sleeved kimonos appropriate to their age; votive plaques and a sacred rope are on the tree to the right

This diptych is an earlier scene in the same play represented in this catalogue, no. 35346

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Publication/Creation

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], [1847/1850]

Physical description

2 prints : woodcut, diptych printed in colours

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Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi-ga Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal, actor's name and actor's role

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Wellcome Collection 35343i

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