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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2008,3037.14103
Title: Object: Ri 里り; Series: Nanatsu iroha toto Fuji zukushi 七ツいろは東都富士盡 (Complete Alphabetic Primer of Fuji in the Eastern Capital)
Description: Woodblock print, oban tate-e. The Kabuki actor Onoe Kikujiro II as Osato, the daughter of a sushi chef. Inset, view of Mt. Fuji from Tsukudajima, with fireworks being launched from a boat. No. 9.
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (main figure); Print artist: Tori-jo とり女 (inset landscape); Published by: Ebiya Rinnosuke 海老屋林之助
School/style: Ukiyo-e School
Cultures/periods: Kaei Era
Production date: 1852 (8th month)
Production place: Published in: Edo (historic)
Materials: paper
Technique: woodblock
Dimensions: Height: 35.80 centimetres; Width: 24.80 centimetres
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Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2016 Jul–Oct, London, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from Prehistory to the Present'
Subjects: actor/actress; kabuki; landscape; fireworks/illuminations
Associated names: Representation of: Onoe Kikujiro II 二代目尾上菊次郎; Associated with: Osato お里
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Fuji-san (Mount Fuji); Topographic representation of: Tsukuda-jima
Associated titles: Associated Title: Goban Tadanobu yuki no nachiguro; Associated Title: Yoshitsune senbon zakura
Acquisition name: Donated by: American Friends of the British Museum
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Prof Arthur R Miller
Acquisition date: 2008
Department: Asia
Registration number: 2008,3037.14103
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: 14103 (Miller Collection number)
Conservation: Treatment: 30 Jun 2016; Treatment

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