Title : triptych print

Artist : Utagawa Toyoshige

Date : 1824

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Iwafuji standing in front of a palanquin, holding one end of a straw sandal (right sheet), Iwai Shijaku I as Onoe (mitate Onoe) kneeling, holding the other end of the sandal (centre), and Iwai Hanshiro V watching on from behind a votive stone lantern, seated, holding a letter scroll; a version of the 'Sandal beating scene' (zori uchi no ba), from the play 'Botan ni cho itsuka fumibako (alternate reading 'Botan ni cho hatsu ga fumibako), also called 'Zoho Kagamiyama', by Tsuruya Nanboku IV; performed at the Ichimura-za in the 3rd month of 1824. The characters are depicted in front of a black lacquered palanquin set down before the entrance to a shrine with a flowering cherry tree in the background.

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