Colour woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. The kabuki actors nakamura utaemon iv as shikaki shinsuke (left), and bando shuka as his wife o-noto (right) holding up a painting of shoki, both standing in front of a palanquin under a blossoming plum tree; 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: 37.10 centimetres (l); ; Height: 37.10 centimetres (r); Width: 25.20 centimetres (l); Width: 25 centimetres (r). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Zhong Kui 鍾馗. Collection: British Museum. Diptych print (BM 2008,3037.18228 1)
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