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Kabuki Scene at Kumagai's Camp, from the play The Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani (Ichinotani futaba gunki)

Utagawa Kunisada

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two-panel artwork depicting a scene from a play. Left panel: - A woman sits on the left wearing a brown kimono with a yellow floral pattern, a black hat with a yellow band, and white undergarments with a pink lining and purple flowers; she faces right. - A semi-reclining woman in a white kimono with a multicolored checkered pattern faces left, holds a black fan with a red circle in her right hand, and rests her left hand on a black and gold patterned fabric. - Bare tree branches with pink blossoms are behind the women. - A yellow signpost is behind the sitting woman. Right panel: - A man stands, wearing a multicolored kimono with pink, green, and orange patterns; a black topknot; and black boots. - He holds a sword in his left hand and a tassel in his right. - His kimono has a pink sash. Both panels have vertical Japanese text. The background of both panels is beige.

Artwork details

Date:
1811
Medium:
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
598 × 305 px
Museum record:
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