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The character Okoma at Ōmori, between Shinagawa and Kawasaki
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Description
Kunisada was the most prolific and commercially successful of all woodblock print designers, producing over 20,000 designeduring his lifetime. Prints of Kabuki actors were his speciality. Here he portrays the actor Iwai Kumesaburō III in the female role of Okoma. Women were banned from acting in the Kabuki theatre and so female roles were taken by male actors specialized as female impersonators (onnagata).
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Details
- Series
- Intermediate Stations on the Tōkaidō Road
- Associated place
- Date
- 1852
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Kunisada (1823-1880) (designer)
- Associated people
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Iwai Kumesaburō (1829 - 1882) (subject)Kazusaya Iwazō (active 1843 - 1853) (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.
- EA1983.48
Location
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- currently in research collection
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