Actors Ichikawa Kuzō II, Ichimura Uzaemon XIII, Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I, and playwright Sakurada Jisuke III

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Actors Ichikawa Kuzō II, Ichimura Uzaemon XIII, Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I, and playwright Sakurada Jisuke III

Utagawa Kunisada; Publisher: Daikokuya Kinjirō; Carver: Yokogawa Takejirō

Date
1860, 9th lunar month
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

This pentaptych which misses the first sheet (far right) is titled Assembly to Practice the Three Towers. Behind the stage, the most famous kabuki actors of the day are rehearsing scripts. They were written by the three renown playwrights referred to in the title as Towers: Segawa Jokō III (1806-81), Kawatake Mokuami (1816-93), and Sakurada Jisuke III (1802-77). Collectors of prints like this could easily identify the actors by their faces but not so much the playwrights, hence red cartouches with their names were placed besides them. Japan, Asia

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