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Puppeteer Yoshida Senshi’s New Quick-change Play at Yūki Theater

Utagawa Kunisada

Artwork Details

Puppeteer Yoshida Senshi’s New Quick-change Play at Yūki Theater
1832
Utagawa Kunisada
print on paper and wood mount
19 in x 41 3/4 in x 3/4 in (48.26 cm x 106.04 cm x 1.91 cm)
Gift of Sharlynn and Andrew Circo, in memory of Sotokichi Katsuizumi
2015/2.157.3

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Description

Subject Matter:

This set of three prints shows a puppetter Yoshida Senshi in the middle, playing two characters. One on the left is Oiwa, from a ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan, and the other on the right is Nikki Danjō from Meiboku Sendai Hagi (Troubles of the Date Clan). The left print has a scene from Yotsuya Kaidan, and the right print has a scene from Meiboku Sendai Hagi.

Physical Description:

Image of five figures wearing blue, tan, red, and brown robes on largely blue, watery background.

This is the left print of a triptych (with 2015/2.157.1 and 2015/2.157.2).

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