Nakamura Fukusuke I as Tadanobu, the fox representing the first two months of the year from the series 'A PARODY OF THE TWELVE MONTHS (MITATE JU NI KAGETSU NOUCHI' (見立十二ヶ月ノ内)
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)
Utagawa Kunihisa II ([二代目]歌川国久) (artist 1832 – 1891)

Nakamura Fukusuke I as Tadanobu, the fox representing the first two months of the year from the series 'A PARODY OF THE TWELVE MONTHS (MITATE JU NI KAGETSU NOUCHI' (見立十二ヶ月ノ内)

Print

11/1859
9.875 in x 14.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Ichiyōsai Toyokuni hitsu (一陽斎豊国筆)
Inset signed: Kunihisa ga (国久)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Marks 145 seal: 21-059)
Carver: Yokogawa Takejirō
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Edo-Tokyo Museum Months 1 and 2 from the series, A Selection of the Twelve Months Mitate ju ni kagetsu nouchi 「見立十二ヶ月ノ内」

Inset: Shimenawa, pine branch, saké kettle, red lacquer cups

Portrait by Toyokuni III (Kunisada). Inset by Kunihisa II.
Iseya Kanekichi (伊勢屋兼吉) (publisher)
Nakamura Fukusuke I (初代中村福助: 3/1839 to 6/1860) (actor)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)