Scene from the play Sukeroku, The Cherry Blossom of Edo, Utagawa Kunisada (I), 1862 print In a brothel, a young man with his foot offers a pipe to the older man to his right. A Courtisane watches from the left. Scene from the Kabuki play "Sukeroku the cherry blossom of Edo", staged on the first day of the third month of 1863, in the Ichimura Theater. The young man named Sukeroku is played by actor Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I. The old man is played by Ichikawa Danzô VI and the Courtisane by actor Iwai Kumesaburô III. The story is about a young man, Sukeroku, but in reality Soga No Gorô, who is looking
Scene from the play Sukeroku, The Cherry Blossom of Edo, Utagawa Kunisada (I), 1862 print In a brothel, a young man with his foot offers a pipe to the older man to his right. A Courtisane watches from the left. Scene from the Kabuki play "Sukeroku the cherry blossom of Edo", staged on the first day of the third month of 1863, in the Ichimura Theater. The young man named Sukeroku is played by actor Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I. The old man is played by Ichikawa Danzô VI and the Courtisane by actor Iwai Kumesaburô III. The story is about a young man, Sukeroku, but in reality Soga No Gorô, who is looking for a stolen family Zwaard. An older man visits the Courtisane Agemaki, also the beloved of Sukeroku, in the brothel where she works. Sukeroku wants to find out if this man has the stolen sword and challenges him to pull him out of his sword, by offering him a pipe with his foot; A great insult. The purple cloth that Sukeroku has around his head indicates that he is in love. (triptych) paper color woodcut brothel. courtesan, hetaera. pipe ~ tobacco
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