diptych print

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Museum number: 1915,0823,0.863.1-2
Description: Colour woodblock print, oban diptych. The kabuki actors (from right) Sawamura Chojuro V as the Priest Saigyo, Onoe Baiko IV as the courtesan Osakayama (Tayu Osakayama) and Iwai Kumesaburo III as Princess Utsushie (Utsushie-hime), with a screen of Mt. Fuji behind, in the play 'Fujimi Saigyo'; performed at the Nakamura-za in the 4th month of 1849 (Kaei 2).
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III); Published by: Ibaya Senzaburo (伊場屋仙三郎)
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Production date: 1849
Production place: Published in: Edo
Materials
Technique: woodblock; colour
Dimensions: Height: 35.80 centimetres (left); Height: 34.50 centimetres (right); Width: 24.90 centimetres (left); Width: 50 centimetres (right)
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: actor/actress; kabuki; courtesan/prostitute
Associated names: Associated with: Saigyō Hōshi 西行法師; Associated with: Princess Utsushie; Representation of: Osakayama; Representation of: Sawamura Sojuro V 五代目澤村宗十郎; Representation of: Onoe Kikugoro IV 四代目尾上菊五郎; Representation of: Iwai Hanshiro VIII 八代目岩井半四郎
Associated places: Associated with: Nakamura-za 中村座
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1915
Acquisition notes: Transferred from Department of Oriental Manuscripts (August 1915)
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1915,0823,0.863.1-2

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