Title : Ichikawa Ebizo as Saito Dosan 市川海老蔵の斉藤道三

Artist : Utagawa Kunisada

Date : 1836

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Colour woodblock print, oban diptych. The kabuki actors (from right) Ichikawa Ebizo V as Saito Dosan, with a musket, and Iwai Shijaku I as Princess Yaegaki (‘Yaegakihime’) holding the sacred Suwa Hossho helmet belonging to Takeda Shingen, both surrounded by fox flames (‘kitsunebi’), in the play ‘Honcho nijushiko’ (本朝廿四孝), by Chikamatsu Hanji, Miyoshi Shoraku and others; performed at the Morita-za in the 7th month of 1836 (Tenpo 7).

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