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The character Kanpei at Inohana, between Sakanoshita Tsuchiyama Kanpei

  • Description

    The Tōkaidō Road connected the capital, Edo (present‐day Tokyo) with Kyoto, and was Japan’s major highway. Several print designers produced series of prints depicting scenes along the Tōkaidō – over 80 Tōkaidō series were produced in total. Here Kunisada shows famous Kabuki actors in front of landscapes related to the stations of the Tōkaidō. The actor here is Ichikawa Danjurō VIII in the role of Hayano Kanpei, holding a gun and shielding himself from rain with his sandogasa rain hat.

  • Details

    Series
    Intermediate Stations on the Tōkaidō Road
    Associated place
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of creation)
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Asia Japan (Inohana) (subject)
    Date
    1852
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Kunisada (1823-1880) (designer)
    Associated people
    Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII (1823 - 1854) (subject)
    Tamaya Sōsuke (active c. 1850 - c. 1868) (publisher)
    Kinugasa Fusajirō (active c. 1843 - 1853) (censor)
    Murata Heiemon (active 1843 - 1853) (censor)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    39.5 x 27 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 1983.
    Accession no.
    EA1983.49

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    • currently in research collection

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