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Utagawa (Nakai) Yoshitaki (1841-1899)
The actors Arashi Rikan IV (r), Onoe Tamizô II (m) and Ichikawa Udanji I (l) as dancing lions (Shishi) in between peonies on a stone bridge (shakkyô).
Play: Goshikigumo Mitsu no Tamajishi
Theatre: Kado
Signature: Yoshitaki hitsu
Publisher: Fujimasa (Fujiya Masashichi, Kinkôdô), Osaka
Date: 3/1875
Size: Chûban triptych, ca. 25 x 53,5 cm
Perfect impression, colours and condition, with relief printing, glossy overprint and printed with metal pigments. The single sheets are uncut, not mounted and not put together.
Compare: MFA Boston, Bigelow Coll. No 11.36178a-c.
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