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Flowers of Edo, Famous Views: Number Ten, No Wo Shitaya

Flowers of Edo, Famous Views: Number Ten, No Wo Shitaya

Series Title: Flowers of Edo, Famous Views (plate 10)

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 - 1865)

Carved by: Matsushima Daijiro (Japanese, active 1860s)

Publisher: Kato Kiyo (Japanese)

Date: 1863
Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (34.3 x 23.5 cm)
Framed: 22 7/16 x 17 7/16 in. (57 x 44.3 cm)
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Object number: 2007.1.1
This three section sheet is a standard ukiyo-e design known as the harimaze, meaning a single print comprised of two or more distinct images. Kunisada and several collaborators were partial to this design type and used landscapes and actor portraits juxtaposed in these multi-part compositions. The actor depicted in the lower two vignettes of this work has been identified as Nakamura Utaemon IV (1798-1852), the fourth generation of a prominent family of kabuki actors. He was known as an extremely versatile player who was also a talented dancer and who could brilliantly perform the entire spectrum of male and female (onnagata) roles.
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