Actors Ichikawa Ichizõ III as Kaja Yoshitaka and Onoe Kikujirō II as Sonohara - 1861 - Utagawa Kunisada (1785-1865) - Japan - Edo Period (1600-1868)

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Interesting kabuki double portrait featuring Ichikawa Ichizo III as Kaja Yoshitaka and Onoe Kikujiro II as the courtesan Sonohara. Yoshitaka looks over his shoulder with a grim frown, holding the end of a long pipe. His shorter hair sticks up atop his head, with the longer locks pulled into a low ponytail over his back. The beauty looks up at him out of the corners of her eyes with a sly smile, a roll of tissues in hand. Beautifully detailed with a burnished pattern on the black areas of the kimono and embossing on the white kimono collar. \r
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Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (1786 – 12 January 1865) , also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Otagawa Toyokuni) , was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. \r
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See Waseda University: https: //archive. waseda. jp/archive/detail. html? arg={%22sub. DB_id%22: %2252%22,%22id%22: %22184521; 1%22}&lang=en