• An actor in the role of Nagoya Sanzaburō (名古屋山三郎) in key block or <i>tameshizuri-e</i> for the play <i>Keisei Toyama Zakura</i> (京成 富山 桜)
An actor in the role of Nagoya Sanzaburō (名古屋山三郎) in key block or <i>tameshizuri-e</i> for the play <i>Keisei Toyama Zakura</i> (京成 富山 桜)
An actor in the role of Nagoya Sanzaburō (名古屋山三郎) in key block or <i>tameshizuri-e</i> for the play <i>Keisei Toyama Zakura</i> (京成 富山 桜)
An actor in the role of Nagoya Sanzaburō (名古屋山三郎) in key block or <i>tameshizuri-e</i> for the play <i>Keisei Toyama Zakura</i> (京成 富山 桜)
An actor in the role of Nagoya Sanzaburō (名古屋山三郎) in key block or <i>tameshizuri-e</i> for the play <i>Keisei Toyama Zakura</i> (京成 富山 桜)
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

An actor in the role of Nagoya Sanzaburō (名古屋山三郎) in key block or tameshizuri-e for the play Keisei Toyama Zakura (京成 富山 桜)

Print

1858
11 in x 15.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print

Signed: Toyokuni ga (豊国画)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Marks 548 - seal 21-228)
Date: 6/1858
Sanzaburō is wearing a robe with one of his two identifying motifs, the triple umbrella or sanbon-karakasa (三本傘). His other motif is the swallows flying in rain or ame ni nure tsubame (雨に濡れ燕). While the birds don't appear in the finished print they are implied by the rain. (See the attached image.)

Key block or tameshizuri-e impression on very thin and transparent paper. A tameshizuri-e (試し刷り画) can be a practice or proof print or a key block print.
Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (辻岡屋文助) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)