triptych print

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Object Type
Museum number: 1915,0823,0.891-893
Description: Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors (right to left) Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Oda Harunaga, Mimasu Gennosuke I as his retainer Mori no Ranmaru and Matsumoto Koshiro V as Takechi Mitsuhide, seated before the horse basin (badarai) containing a horse's bit that was given to him as a saké receptacle, in the play 'Toki mo kikyo Oda no hosaku', (or 'Toki mo kikyo Oda no dekiaki'), performed at the Nakamura-za in the 9th month of 1825 (Bunsei 8).
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III); Published by: Enomotoya Kichibei 榎本屋吉兵衛
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1825
Production place: Published in: Edo
Materials
Technique: woodblock; colour
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Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Matsumoto Koshiro V 五代目松本幸四郎; Representation of: Mimasu Daigoro IV 四代目三枡大五郎; Representation of: Ichikawa Danjuro VII 七代目市川団十郎; Associated with: Oda Harunaga 小田春永; Associated with: Mori Ranmaru 森蘭丸; Associated with: Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
Associated places: Associated with: Nakamura-za 中村座
Associated titles: Associated Title: Toki mo kikyo Oda no hosaku 時桔梗小田豊作 (play); Associated Title: Toki mo kikyo Oda no dekiaki 時模様小田豊兆 (alternate title); Associated Title: Badarai no ba 馬盥の場 (scene)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1915
Acquisition notes: Transferred from Department of Oriental Manuscripts (August 1915)
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1915,0823,0.891-893

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