Title : Sono mukashi Hidari Jingoro ga meiyo no fukugoto 其昔左甚五郎が名誉の旧事

Artist : Utagawa Kunisada

Date : 1847

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors (from left) Nakamura Utaemon IV as the sculptor Hidari Jingoro, Onoe Baiko IV as the life-size doll of a courtesan (‘Oyama ningyo’) emerging from a large wooden box, and Arashi Koroku V as Jingoro’s wife Otsuya, in the dance ‘Shiki no hina Asakusa hakkei’ (時翫雛浅草八景), (alternate reading ‘Toki no hina Asakusa hakkei’ , commonly called ‘Kyo ningyo’) (京人形), by Sakurada Jisuke III; performed at the Kawarasaki-za in the 4th month of 1847 (Koka 4).

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