Actors Nakamura Fukusuke I as Sakuraya Tokuemon and Arashi Kichisaburō III as Sasano Sangobei

Utagawa Toyokuni

Edo period (1615-1868), 1854

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Chapter 17 The Picture Contest, from the series Genji Incense Pictures, Utagawa Kunisada, ink and color on paper
Winter Costume (.4, recto); Shinto Priest (.5, verso), Attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei, hand-colored albumen prints mounted to album page
A double-gourd shaped vase. Upper and lower portion with a background of blue/purple that fades out at base of vase. Painted with five branches with yellow flowers (unidentified flower) and six butterflies in a spring setting. Raised gold decoration on veins of leaves, stamens of flowers and wings of butterflies. Upper portion decorated with four chevron floral designs equally spaced on blue ground. A dentated floral band around lip and around shoulder where spheres join. A worn, gilded dragon crawls in and out of the surface of the vase and the top of the first sphere. Cream-colored glaze on interior and on foot. Four character mark on foot.
Round fan with calligraphy