Woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. A scene from the kabuki play 'ichidai banashi' performed at the ichimura theatre in the seventh month of koka 4 (1847). The kabuki actor sawamura sojuro v (l) as kiyoshichi on his knees holding a cloth and nakayama bungoro (?) as the maid o-ura standing behind him, bando shuka (r) as o-kaji, the wife of danshichi, standing and holding a tobacco pipe with nakayama bungoro as the servant denpachi in a striped robe kneeling behind. Date: circa 1847. Dimensions: Height: 35 centimetres (l); ; Height: 34.70 centimetres (r); Width: 24.70 centimetres (l); Width: 25.10 centimetres (r). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Diptych print (BM 2008,3037.18245)
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