Title : Hazuki / Juni-kagetsu no uchi

Artist : Utagawa Toyokuni I

Date : 1813

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Colour woodblock print, oban. The kabuki actor Bando Mitsugoro III performing the ‘Shikajima dance’ (‘Shikajima odori’) in the role of a shrine attendant leaping over a ‘mochi’ rice mortar with a pestle in hand; the eighth of twelve sections in the ‘hengemono’ dance ‘Shiki no nagame yosete mitsudai’ (lyrics by Fukumori Kyusuke I and music by Tobaya Richo I,) performed at the Nakamura-za in the 3rd month of 1813. Subtitled 'hazuki' (the eighth lunar month).

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