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A Nô Performance for the Lord of Kamakura (Kamakura dono on-Nô kôgyô no zu)


「鎌倉殿御能興行之図」
Utagawa Yoshikata (Japanese, active about 1841–1864)
Publisher: Koshimuraya Heisuke (Koshihei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.1 × 74.2 cm (14 3/16 × 29 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number2009.5011.40a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTwo triptychs can be combined to form a hexaptych: 2009.5011.39a-c (right half), 2009.5011.40a-c (left half)

MFA impressions of the hexaptych:
Right side: 11.16225VR (11.16625, 11.18139, 11.18140), 2009.5011.39a-c
Left side: 11.16301VR (11.16301, 11.18143, 11.18144), 2009.5011.40a-c

Mounted in an album of 55 prints with the hand-written title "The Road to the Capital, Spring 1863" (Bunkyû san haru no miyako michi).
画帳 「文久三春の都路」
Signed Yoshikata gô (on left sheet)
芳形毫
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 4 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥四改
彫師:なし