Onnagata Iwai Shijaku plays a woman holding on to the end of her obi as it is grabbed by an unseen character

Artist:
Kunisada, Utagawa
Date Made:
1814-1833
Classification:
Print
Country:
Japan
Artist birth Date:
1786
Artist death Date:
1864
Materials:
color woodblock print
Accession Number:
1998.63.62
Full BAMPFA credit line:
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the Edgar F. Rosenblatt family
Century:
19 CE

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