Catalog record · 目録番号 46579

mitate-e

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Toyokuni I初代歌川豊国
Date / 年代: 1790
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital image / 画像: 750 × 3789 px
Published by / 公開者: 星野アカリ

Catalog note / 解説

Colour woodblock, pillar print (‘hashira-e’). A parody of the most famous scene in Act VII, ‘Gion Ichiriki Jaya’, from the kabuki play ‘Kanadehon Chushingura’. As a man (parodying Oboshi Yuranosuke) unrolls a long letter scroll, one girl below (parodying Ono Kudayu) secretly reads the end of the scroll as it trails over a bamboo fence, while a second girl above (parodying Okaru) also peeks at it from a nearby balcony.

Image record / 画像情報

BM · 1769-1825 (artist) · bm

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