Diptych print (BM 2008,3037.18222), Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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Diptych print (BM 2008,3037.18222), Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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Colour woodblock diptych print, oban tate-e. The kabuki actor Onoe Kikujiro II as Terutehime (left) in a wooden boat, Ichikawa Kodanji IV (right), falling from a tree into the water, as the fisherman Namishichi, and Ichikawa Ichizo III, in the water, as the fisherman Dohachi (right), from the play 'Oguri gaiden', performed at the Nakamura theatre in the fourth month, Kaei 4 (1851).

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1851
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British Museum
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