Actor with a goose in his hand, Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô (1791-1859) in the role of Konoshita Tôkichi stands in front of a gate with an umbrella and an goose in her hand pierced with an arrow. This print is the left-hand page of a diptych that forms part of a pyramid-shaped triptych, the right-hand leaf and the leaf diagonally above the current leaf are missing. With one poem on the pillar: 'Praised as the' thousand gourds 'of Naritaya, another successful season awaits this first-class actor' Naritaya was one of the names Ichikawa Danjûrô used when writing poems, water birds : goose, Kunisada (I
Actor with a goose in his hand, Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô (1791-1859) in the role of Konoshita Tôkichi stands in front of a gate with an umbrella and an goose in her hand pierced with an arrow. This print is the left-hand page of a diptych that forms part of a pyramid-shaped triptych, the right-hand leaf and the leaf diagonally above the current leaf are missing. With one poem on the pillar: 'Praised as the' thousand gourds 'of Naritaya, another successful season awaits this first-class actor' Naritaya was one of the names Ichikawa Danjûrô used when writing poems, water birds : goose, Kunisada (I), Utagawa (mentioned on object), Japan, 1820, paper, colour woodcut, h 214 mm × w 188 mm
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