Artist : Utagawa Toyokuni I

Date : 1815

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Colour woodblock print, one sheet from a polyptych. The kabuki actor Arashi Sangoro III as Tokubei, clerk of the Hiranoya oil shop ('Hiranoya tedai Tokubei'), drawing a sword. From the play 'Sono sakazuki iro no mitsukumi' by Tsuruya Nanboku IV, performed at the Ichimura-za in the 1st month of 1815. Signed. (See also 1908,0718,0.69 and 0.91)

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