Attributed to HAKUTAKUNI (active circa 1824)
Attributed to HAKUTAKUNI (active circa 1824)

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Attributed to HAKUTAKUNI (active circa 1824)
The actor Fujikawa Tomokichi II in the role of Kasugano Shinobu in the play Hade kurabe Ise monogatari, performed at the Naka theatre in Osaka in August 1824, signed U...takuni ga, published by Toshin


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Although the print is signed U...takuni, current scholarly opinion is that this is not, as was previously thought, the work of the playwright Hamamatsu Utakuni who appears only to have been active some eight to ten years earlier. This design appears to be the only known example of Hakutakuni's work.

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