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Publisher
Tsutaya Kichizo
DimensionsSheet: 14 1/4 × 9 7/8 in. (36.2 × 25.1 cm)
Image: 13 × 9 1/4 in. (33 × 23.5 cm)
Accession Number 2009.35
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
Inscriptionsclam shell (Genji-mon) indicates number 44 in the traditional series of 54 Tale of Genji prints
Portfolio/Series"Cards of the tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu"
MarksChop (l,c)
Bamboo River, from the series "Cards of the tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu"
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Yugao (Evening Faces), from the series "Murasaki Shikibu Genji Karuta" ("Cards of the Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu)"
Utagawa Kunisada II
1857
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
二代歌川国貞Totsuka, from the series "Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei)"
Utagawa Kunisada II
1863
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Fukagawa: Actors Nakamura Fukusuke I and Onoe Kikujirô II, from the series Thirty-six Views of Fuji from the Eastern Capital (Tôto Fuji sanjûrokkei)
(「東都富士三十六景　深川」初代中村福助、二代目尾上菊次郎)
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
1860
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The actor Nakamura Fukusuke I in his role as Goro in the play "Yayoi-zakura hisago no makubari", from the series "Imayo oshie kagami (The Mirror of Today's Pictures)"
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
1860
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Nakayama Family Genealogy (right sheet of triptych), from the series 古今俳優似顔大全 Kokon yakusha nigao daizen (“Anthology of Actor Likenesses Past and Present”)
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
10th lunar month 1863
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Untitled, from the series "Kiyogaki nanatsu iroha"(Neatly Written Syllabary in the Seven Styles)"
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
ca. 1856
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
坂田家系譜」「半時九郎兵衛 三代目坂田半五郎 杉暁」「京極内匠 四代目坂田半五郎 杉暁」「中立啓庵 二代目佐十郎 俳名杉弟」 (Collection of portrait of actors past and present: Actors from the Sakata Family)
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
October 1863
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bandō Hikosaburō V in the role of Hazama Jujiro Fujiwara Mitsuoki, from "Seichu gishi-den (Stories of the Faithful Samurai)"
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
1864
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Beautiful Geisha in Spring Play
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
1853
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Kabuki actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro as Kagekiyo
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
ca. 1861
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ayatsuri Ayame Ningyo (The Puppet Iris)
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
1860
Photo Credit: Richard Sanders, Des Moines
Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgoku-bashi), from the series "Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meishô zue)"
(「江戸名所図絵　両国橋」)
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
1861