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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.738.-739+5030
People
Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞, Japanese (Katsushika, Musashi 1786 - 1864)
Published by Shimizuya Tsunejirô
Title
Actors in a scene from the play The Story of Cherry Blossoms on Higashiyama (Higashiyama sakura zōshi): Bandō Hikosaburō IV as Ashikaga Yoshimasa kō, Azuma Ichinojō I as Kashitsuki Sugibae (right sheet), Onoe Kikujirō II as Besshitsu Fuji no kata (center sheet), unidentified actor as Koshimoto Kodemari, and Iwai Kumesaburō III as Ashikaga Jirō no kimi (left sheet)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1851, 8th month
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/31252

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock-printed triptych; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ōban triptych: 35.5 x 71.7 cm (14 x 28 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Toyokuni ga (on right and left sheets)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.738.-739+5030
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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