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Actors Playing a Ken Game (with dance instructions) by Utagawa Kunisada — VisualArtsDB

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Actors Playing a Ken Game (with dance instructions)

Actors Playing a Ken Game (with dance instructions)

Actors Playing a Ken Game (with dance instructions)

Utagawa Kunisada

1848

Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 14 3/8 × 9 5/8 in. (36.5 × 24.5 cm) (image, sheet, vertical ōban)
Genre: Print
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Related to the play Iroshina wo kaete kenzake 色品替拳酒, performed at the Nakamura Theater, 1848, 1st month.

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