diptych print

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Object Type
Museum number: 1907,0531,0.213.1-2
Description: Colour woodblock print, oban diptych. The kabuki actor (right sheet) Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Takeda Katsuyori, standing with his sword beneath a flowering cherry tree, looking left; and (left sheet) Ichikawa Danjuro VIII again as Shirasuga Rokuro, posing on one knee with a spear under arm, fighting with an enemy soldier; in the play 'Hana no yuki Takeda no kachidoki', performed at the Nakamura-za from the 3rd month of 1850 (Kaei 3).
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III); Published by: Itsutsuya Shokichi (井筒屋庄吉)
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1850
Production place: Made in: Edo
Materials
Technique: woodblock; colour
Dimensions: Height: 36.40 centimetres (left); Height: 36.30 centimetres (right); Width: 24.90 centimetres (left); Width: 24.30 centimetres (right)
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: actor/actress; cherry blossom; kabuki
Associated names: Representation of: Takeda Katsuyori 武田勝頼 (right); Representation of: Shirasuga Rokuro 白須加六郎 (left); Portrait of: Ichikawa Danjuro VIII (八代目市川団十郎)
Associated places: Associated with: Nakamura-za 中村座
Associated titles: Associated Title: Hana no yuki Takeda no kachidoki (花眺雪武田勝凱) ((play)); Associated Title: Honcho nijushiko (本朝廿四孝) ((related play))
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1907
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1907,0531,0.213.1-2

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