Actor Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the peasant Shiradayû, from the Copy-book of Loyalty (Translation)
忠孝手習草紙 百姓白太夫 大判錦絵三枚続の右 (Primary Title)
Tenmangû wakaba no koaishu 天満宮緑梅松桜 (Play Title)
Hyakusho Shiratayu in Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy (Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami) (Former Title)

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

1846
Japanese
Prints
Works On Paper
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper (right sheet of triptych)
Place Made,Japan
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 13/16 in. (36.2 × 24.92 cm)
Image: 14 × 9 13/16 in. (35.56 × 24.92 cm)
2013.785
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: 岩上総屋 Kazusaya; Censor's seal: 渡 watari
忠孝手習草紙 百姓白太夫 桜丸は主君の御娘かり屋姫を親王になかだちなせし処 藤原の時平ときを得て丞相を讒言す これによつて菅公筑紫へ配流せらる
Gift of Japan-Virginia Society
kuniyoshiprojec.copy.book
MM0637_38
MFA11.37999
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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