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Jukōdō Yoshikumi

Actors passing Mount Fuji between the Yoshiwara and Hara stations on the Tokaido (Yakusha dochu yoshiwara hara fuji enbo), 1820s

Description

Maker

Title

Actors passing Mount Fuji between the Yoshiwara and Hara stations on the Tokaido (Yakusha dochu yoshiwara hara fuji enbo)

Year

1820s

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

Sheet: 19.1 x 53 cm (7 1/2 x 20 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

[text and poems] Top left inscription signed illegibly nanasei (7th generation ___do) and appears to explain that the illustration shows actors from the Koraiya Naritaya (the Koraiya Naritaya theater,

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Roger S. Keyes and Elizabeth Coombs

Object Number

1997.90.15

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Edo Theater

January 18 - May 18, 2008

This print depicts an actor troupe on the Tōkaidō (Eastern Sea Route) as they travel to Edo (modem Tokyo).

Marking the Occasion

February 3 - May 28, 2006

Announcements were often printed in the form of long surimono, such as this example by the Osaka printmaker Yoshikuni. The text of the announcement would have appeared above on a sheet comparable in size to that of the print.

Marking the Occasion

September 15 - December 3, 2000

Announcements were often printed in the form of long surimono, such as this example by the Osaka printmaker Yoshihuni.

Use

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