Not on display

Woodblock Print

5/1851
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

STANDARD PRINT

Format: SINGLE SHEET
Sheet size: OBAN
Direction: V
Artist's seal present: N

Subject content: PLAY-"TOKAIDO YOTSUYA KAIDAN";KAWARAZAKI-ZA,1851/05;TAMIYA IEMON-ICHIKAWA EBIZO V;OIWA IMOTO OSODE-ONOE BAIKO IV;YAZAMA JUTARO-ONOE MATSUSUKE III;SENKAKI GOROKICHI-ICHIKAWA SARUZO I;SATO YOMOSHICHI-SAWAMURA CHOJURO V. AUTHOR - TSURUYA NAMBOKU IV.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Woodblock print on paper
Brief description
Woodblock print from a series by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), Japan, 1851
Physical description
STANDARD PRINT

Format: SINGLE SHEET
Sheet size: OBAN
Direction: V
Artist's seal present: N

Subject content: PLAY-"TOKAIDO YOTSUYA KAIDAN";KAWARAZAKI-ZA,1851/05;TAMIYA IEMON-ICHIKAWA EBIZO V;OIWA IMOTO OSODE-ONOE BAIKO IV;YAZAMA JUTARO-ONOE MATSUSUKE III;SENKAKI GOROKICHI-ICHIKAWA SARUZO I;SATO YOMOSHICHI-SAWAMURA CHOJURO V. AUTHOR - TSURUYA NAMBOKU IV.
Dimensions
  • Length: 36.2cm
  • Height: 25.4cm
Taken from register
Marks and inscriptions
  • KINUGASA,MURATA (signature)
    Translation
    TOYOKUNI GA
  • (censor's seal)
Object history
One of a series of thirty-two sheets numbered E.7106to7137-1886.
Purchased from S. M. Franck & Co., accessioned in 1886. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.7108-1886

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Record createdMarch 5, 2000
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