Actors
Description:Watercolor on paper with trimmed margins, mounted and matted. Large old priest with long white beard, tiered golden crown, red scarf around neck, green and yellow collar, dark blue kimono with white wave patterns and golden turtle design holding red and gold handled fan with red horse hair finial. Light blue rippling water in center; yellow shelter in upper left, two seated people beneath roof. Actress in purple kimono with white floral design, red undergarments and black trim. Actor seated at her left dressed in two-tone striped kimono with black trim and red lining. Actor on roof in two-tone blue checkerboard kimono with white skirt, green and red lining, holding blue book in left hand, white object in right. Gray steps in far upper right, green fields, tree with red flowers. Black band with gold floral center and gold studded corners at top. Red rectangle containing description at top of stairs. Circular white medallions on kimonos indicating their names in Japanese characters.
Category | Other - Assorted |
Reference Number | 00828 |
Maker/Artist | Kuniteru (1808-1876) & Kunichika (1835-1900) |
Materials | Japanese woodcut, watercolor on paper |
Measurements | Height: 14 in; Width: 9 in |
Time Period | 19th Century |