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Three Actors with a Puppet
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Three Actors with a Puppet

Utagawa Kunisada (I) · c. 1815 - c. 1820 · color woodcut; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Three actors, of whom two on the left in female roles move a puppet that looks like a young man in a black kimono on which two large medallions with a crane are depicted. The actors wear the family crest of both the Ichikawa and the Segawa actor families. With two poems.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineDrie acteurs met een pop. c. 1815 - c. 1820. Utagawa Kunisada (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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