Colour woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. The kabuki actors bando shuka as oiso of nakanocho (left), and ichimura uzaemon xii in an unidentified role carrying a tree branch from which toys are hanging; both are standing at a gate, on the other side is nakamura utaemon iv as aoto fujitsuna holding a partially open fan; scene from the play 'aoto-banashi', performed at the ichimura theatre on the seventeenth day of the first month, kaei 2 (1849). Date: 1849. Dimensions: Height: 36.60 centimetres (l); ; Height: 36.70 centimetres (r); Width: 25.10 centimetres (l); Width: 25 centimetres (r). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Diptych print (BM 2008,3037.18230)
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