Catalog record · 目録番号 2556

Rokkasen sugata no irodori (The Six Poet Immortals in Colourful Guises)

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)歌川国貞（三代歌川豊国）
Date / 年代: 1831
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital image / 画像: 750 × 1092 px
Published by / 公開者: 森川ミドリ

Catalog note / 解説

Colour woodblock print, right sheet of an oban diptych. The kabuki actor Iwai Kumesaburo II as Ono no Komachi, standing with a large ‘hiogi’ fan and dressed in the multi-layered court costume ‘juni hitoe’, in the section ‘Narihira’ from the five-part ‘hengemono’ dance ‘Rokkasen sugata no irodori’, (originally read ‘Uta awase sugata no irodori’), with lyrics by Matsumoto Koji and music by Kineya Rokuzaemon X and Kiyomoto Saibei; performed at the Nakamura-za from the 3rd month of 1831 (Tenpo 2).

Image record / 画像情報

BM · 1831 · bm

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