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The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the female fox from Mt. Ubagadake in the play "Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1777 by Katsukawa Shunshō — Japanese Color woodblock print; one sheet of hosoban tetraptych, c. 1777

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the female fox from Mt. Ubagadake in the play "Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1777

by Katsukawa Shunshō

Date:
c. 1777
Medium:
Color woodblock print; one sheet of hosoban tetraptych

Description

A standing kabuki actor in female role, robed in a patchwork kimono of orange, olive-green, and cream panels decorated with wave and lattice motifs and outsized folding-fan shapes; billowing pale streamers or drapery loop around the legs at the hem. The figure holds an open fan overhead and wears an elaborate dark coiffure with ornaments, set against a plain cream ground above a flat tan foreground band, with a red seal at upper left and the artist's signature in black at right. Katsukawa Shunshō, hosoban-format color woodblock print, 1772.

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The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the female fox from Mt. Ubagadake in the play "Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1777 was created by Katsukawa Shunshō (勝川春章) in c. 1777.