Actors in role: the sculptor Hidari Jingoro offering a cup of sake to a doll that has come to life and stepped out of its box. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.

  • Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.
Date:
Month 11, 1856
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35850i
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Actors in role: the sculptor Hidari Jingoro offering a cup of sake to a doll that has come to life and stepped out of its box. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Large doll box with pedestal behind; a tray of food in the foreground and a sake bottle to the left of the figures

Whole-length figures

Publication/Creation

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], Month 11, 1856.

Physical description

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours

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Utagawa Toyokuni-hitsu Bears publisher's mark, censor's seal, actor's role and set title Poem in the inset above with a bowl and cut blossom as illustration Incribed on the box 'Doll of the Capital [Kyoto]

Notes

Parody of thirty-six selected verses

Reference

Wellcome Collection 35850i

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