Shirotayû with two butterflies, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV, in the role of the farmer Shirotayû, pulling a black ox on which Sugawara no Michizane sits, depicted on the left leaf of this diptych. Together they are on their way to Anraku Temple to admire a cherry tree that has been miraculously moved from Michizane's birth village to the temple., print maker: Kunisada (I), Utagawa, (mentioned on object), publisher: Shimizuya Naojirô, (mentioned on object), Japan, in or after Jan-1850 - in or before Mar-1853, paper, colour woodcut, height 360 mm × width 250 mm

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