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Mitate Kagamiyama (A re-enactment of the play, Kagamiyama)


Utagawa Toyokuni, Mitate Kagamiyama (A re-enactment of the play, Kagamiyama), ca. 1801-1803, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e; triptych, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.352a-c

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Title

Mitate Kagamiyama (A re-enactment of the play, Kagamiyama)

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original language: 見立鏡山

translated: A re-enactment of the play Kagamiyama

transliterated: Mitate Kagamiyama

Artist

Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769–1825)

Related People

publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Japanese, active ca. 1794-1897)

Date

ca. 1801-1803

Period

Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)

Medium

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e; triptych

Catalogue Raisonné

Graybill 2011, cat. 71

Dimensions (H x W x D)

sheet: 14 7/8 in x 29 13/16 in

Inscriptions & Markings

inscription: 岩ふし, printed in black and pink ink, center of center sheet Transliteration: Iwafuji Language: Japanese Description: Name inscribed on kimono of woman standing at the center of the composition, designating her as the senior lady-in-waiting, Iwafuji from the tale Kagamiyama.

inscription: 尾のへ松, printed in black and pink ink, center of left sheet Transliteration: Onoe Matsu Language: Japanese Description: Name inscribed on kimono of woman seated at left, designating her as the junior lady-in-waiting, Onoe from the tale Kagamiyama.

publisher's mark: 若, printed in black ink within lozenge cartouche, lower left of right sheet; lower right of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): waka ([seal of the publisher Wakasaya Yoichi 若狭屋与市]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm Jakurindō 若林堂 active ca. 1794-1897.

censor's mark: 極, printed in black relief within circular cartouche, lower left of right sheet; center of center sheet; lower right of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): kiwame (approval) Language: Japanese

signature: 豊國画, printed in black ink, lower left of right sheet; center of center sheet; lower right of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): Toyokuni ga (picture [by] Toyokuni) Language: Japanese

Collection Area

Asian Art; Graphic Arts

Category

Prints

Japanese Traditional Prints

Object Type

relief print

Culture

Japanese

Credit Line

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

Accession Number

32.352a-c

Copyright

public domain

Terms

Edo

Japanese woodblock prints

nishiki-e

oban

relief printing

relief prints

The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection

triptychs

woodcuts

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