Actors Onoe Kikugoro IV as Shizuka-gozen (R) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as the fox Genkuro (L) (Translation)
四代目尾上菊五郎のしづか御ぜん 四代目中村歌右衛門の源九郎ぎつね 大判錦絵二枚続 (Primary Title)
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura 義経千本桜 (Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees) (Play Title)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Japanese, 1797-1862 (Artist)

1847
Japanese
Prints
Works On Paper
Woodblock prints; ink and color on paper (diptych)
Japan
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (36.2 × 24.77 cm)
2013.801-802
Not on view
Yakusha-e 役者絵
Edo period (1615-1868)
一勇斎国芳画 Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
Artist’s seal, Publisher’s seal: Minatoya Kohei, two censors’ seals
しづか御ぜん (R), 源九郎ぎつね (L)
Gift of Japan-Virginia Society
BM 2008,3037.18225
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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