Two actors at New Year's Decoration, Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1830 A young man in formal gestation and folded range (child actor Ichikawa Ebizô VI (1823-54)), looks at a woman with New Year's Decoration in her hand (actor Segawa Kikonojô V (1802-32) in an unknown women's role). The decoration consists of fern leaf, pine branches, daidai orange and a red lobster, all symbols for a long life: the pine always remains green, the curved lobster refers to the curved back of old people and means 'daaidai' from generation to generation. With three poems, one by Segawa Kikunojô V: How nice it is to be born i
Two actors at New Year's Decoration, Utagawa Kuniyasu, 1830 A young man in formal gestation and folded range (child actor Ichikawa Ebizô VI (1823-54)), looks at a woman with New Year's Decoration in her hand (actor Segawa Kikonojô V (1802-32) in an unknown women's role). The decoration consists of fern leaf, pine branches, daidai orange and a red lobster, all symbols for a long life: the pine always remains green, the curved lobster refers to the curved back of old people and means 'daaidai' from generation to generation. With three poems, one by Segawa Kikunojô V: How nice it is to be born in the grand city of Edo, spring is full of flowers. Japan paper color woodcut
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