A Samurai Standing Under Cherry Trees, Utagawa Kunisada (I), 1827

Title(s)

A Samurai Standing Under Cherry Trees

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1991-658

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 554
• Goslings 57

Description

De acteur Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (1791-1859) in de rol van Fuwa Banzaemon in het stuk Soga no shimadai, opgevoerd in 1827 in het Kawarasaki theater in Edo. Het linkerblad van dit diptiek laat Onoe Kikugorô III (1784-1849) zien in de rol van Nagoya Sanza. Met twee gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Utagawa Kunisada (I) (mentioned on object)
• Fukusaien Yonenari (mentioned on object)
• Fukuyôshi Harutomo (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1827

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 197 mm × width 180 mm

What

• portrait of actor, actress
• plants; vegetation
• head-gear

Credit line

• Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Acquisition

gift 1991

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 288, cat.nr. 554
• Surimono, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 32, cat.nr. 57
• One hundred surimono in the collection of Sidney C. Ward, Sidney C. Ward, cat.nr. 90
• Steffi Schmidt en Setsuko Kuwabara, Surimono : Kostbare Japanische Farbholzschnitte aus dem Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Berlin (Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst) 1990, cat.nr. 59.