THE SERVANT ARIOMARU (Utagawa Kunisada)

Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (1786-1865), signed Gototei Kunisada ga 五渡亭国貞画
Print title: Actor Ichikawa Komazo as Ariomaru 有王丸 市川高麗蔵
Print subject: the servant of the exiled priest Shunkan 俊寛

Play: Hime Komatsu Nenohi no Asobi 姫小松子日遊

Censor’s seal: kiwame 極

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Period: ca. 1820s-30s
Condition: fair, small wormholes, a more significant wormhole restored in the left margin, paper thinnings in the upper corners
Dimensions: 26 x 38 cm

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