Ichikawa Danjūrō VII Preparing New Year's Gifts
Utagawa Kunisada Japanese
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The Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VII (1791–1859) is shown at home in everyday dress, preparing New Year’s gifts for his admirers. The gifts are cotton hand towels (tenugui) that have been folded into miniature workmen’s coats, each decorated with the three concentric squares (mimasu) of his family crest and the words Ichikawa and Kiba (a reference to the actor’s home in Fukagawa). It is likely that this surimono was designed while Danjūrō was performing in Osaka in 1830.
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