Nakamara Utaemon III (三代目 中村歌右ヱ門) as Tamamo no Mae (玉藻ノ前) and Toba-e (鳥羽絵, a Comic Drawing)
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1825
Maker: Toyokawa Yoshikuni (豊川芳国)
Dimensions:
380 x 763 mm (38 x 76.3 cm)
Medium: O-ban Nishiki-e (大判錦絵, large-format coloured print)
Object number: O.6.2-3
DescriptionScenes from a play titled 'Yosete Arata ni Kokono Bake(日本新玉九尾化).'
This scene is an extract from the series Dance of Nine Changes Kokonobake no Uchi (九変化ノ内).
Three scenes, in pale pink, blue and grey, each shows figure on plain ground: 1. Nine-tailed fox, figure facing right, with floor length hair, hairy garments, and fantail, with chrysanthemums in each hand. 2. Fox-witch Tamamo no Mae, woman with pink and blue robes and large fan. 3. Naked man facing left in anger, in pink loin cloth, bird kite, still with piece of string attached, flies above, and rat jumps out of lacquer tray at his feet.
This scene is an extract from the series Dance of Nine Changes Kokonobake no Uchi (九変化ノ内).
Three scenes, in pale pink, blue and grey, each shows figure on plain ground: 1. Nine-tailed fox, figure facing right, with floor length hair, hairy garments, and fantail, with chrysanthemums in each hand. 2. Fox-witch Tamamo no Mae, woman with pink and blue robes and large fan. 3. Naked man facing left in anger, in pink loin cloth, bird kite, still with piece of string attached, flies above, and rat jumps out of lacquer tray at his feet.
