Two Actors Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865)

19th century

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Surimono: polychrome woodblock print

Dimensions

8 3/16 × 7 3/8 in. (20.8 × 18.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Howard Morse

Accession Number

1959.26

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mrs. Howard M. Morse; gift in 1959 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Inscriptions

Two kyōka poems: The right poem preceded by his name needs further research, but...Right poet: "Mantokusō? (ten thousand, virtue, ?). Higashi kara/ murasaki tachi te/ misuji hodo/ kitai na shima ni/ kasumu akebono." The left kyōka by Shibaen Morisuna, "Owariya no/ niwa ni kite naku/ uguisu mo/ o'odatemono no/ koe no yoshi hira?" 5/11/04 revised 4/2/21

Signed

Gototei Kunisada ga (at lower right); a seal unidentified; Poem signed by Shibaen Morisuna, (author of Kyōka Chomon jū)　
司馬園盛砂（狂歌著聞集筆者）歌 at mid left

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