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Lady with Dragon Crown Behind a Seated Man
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Lady with Dragon Crown Behind a Seated Man

Utagawa Kunisada (I) · 1820 · color woodcut; paper

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

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A woman wearing a dragon crown and holding a fan stands behind a seated man. The man is actor Bandô Mitsugorô III (1775-1832) in the role of Urashimatarô, the young fisherman taken by the daughter of the Dragon King, played by Segawa Kikunojô V (1802-32), to her father's palace on the seabed. When Urashimatarô returns to the mainland, hundreds of years have passed. With two poems.

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Credit lineLady with Dragon Crown Behind a Seated Man. 1820. Utagawa Kunisada (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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