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Object Type
Museum number: 2003,0306,0.3
Title: Object: Minamoto no Shitago; Series: Mitate sanjurokkasen no uchi 見立三十六歌撰之内
Description: Colour woodblock print. Half-length portrait of Arashi Koroku ?IV as Ko no Moronao. Poem by Minamoto no Shitago inscribed above. Signed, with publisher's and carver's marks.
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III); Block cut by: Yokokawa Horitake (横川彫武); Published by: Iseya Kanekichi
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Production date: 1852 (eleventh month)
Production place: Made in: Edo
Materials
Technique: woodblock; colour
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Subjects: kabuki; actor/actress; poetry; thirty-six poets
Associated names: Portrait of: Arashi Koroku IV 四代目嵐小六 (probably); Representation of: Ko no Moronao (高師直); Named in inscription: Minamoto no Shitago (源順); Associated with: Sanjurokkasen 三十六歌仙
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Acquisition date: 2003
Department: Asia
Registration number: 2003,0306,0.3

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