Chiyoda Castle (Album of Men)

Three-panel illustration, off-white background. Left panel: Five men in traditional Japanese clothing sitting on a blue and white striped platform under blooming tree, facing right, one standing behind them. Middle panel: Man in green robe walking right, black hair in a bun. Right panel: Two men in traditional clothing with black hats, right man in orange robe, left man in white robe with sword, facing left under blooming tree. Canvas is creased between panels. Japanese text in bottom corners, right side has red symbol.

Artwork details

Date:: 1897
Medium:: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 600 × 318 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

The Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II (right), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (center), and Segawa Kikunojo III (left), Possibly as Misao Gozen, Matsuya Soshichi, and the Courtesan Kojoro of Hakata, in the Play Chiyo no Hajime Ondo no Seto (Beginnings of Eternity: The Ondo Straits in the Seto Insland Sea) (?), Performed at the Kiri Theater from the Twenty-seventh Day of te Seventh Month, 1785