Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)
Girls in a Parody of the Battle of Dan-no-ura (Mitate musume Dan-no-ura - 見立娘壇之浦) - left panel of a triptych
ca 1843 – 1846
9.75 in x 14 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
Signed: ōju Kōchōrō Toyokuni ga
應需香朝楼国貞画
Publisher: Kogaya Katsugorō
(Marks 262 - seal 26-169)
Censor's seal: Hama
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - the full triptych
National Diet Library - the full triptych
Ritsumeikan University
Google map - Shimonoseki Strait where the Battle of Dan-no-ura took place
Hokkaido Museum of Art - the full triptych In a pleasure boat on a summer outing, passing near the pilings of a bridge, a bijin in a checkered kimono peels a fruit.
Dan-no-ura is sometimes transliterated as Dannoura. Both can be found on this site.
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The right-hand panel in this triptych is signed 'Toyokuni ga'; the center panel is signed 'Kōchōrō Toyokuni ga'; and this one on the left is signed 'ōju Kōchōrō Toyokuni ga'.
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Illustrated in color in 歌川国貞 : 美人画を中心に (Utagawa Kunisada: Focusing on Pictures of Beautiful Women), published by Seikado Bunko, 1996, #111, p. 69. The whole triptych is shown here.
Kogaya Katsugorō (古賀屋勝五郎) (publisher)
beautiful woman picture (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)
mitate-e (見立て絵) (genre)