Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych)
date: label: Date
content: 1810–20
name: label: Artist
content: Kininaga, d. ca. 1820
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three panels joined to form a single composition. Description on verso of mount as follows: "Beauties impersonating the eight sennin - Immortals. Kinto beauty on carp-steed located in center which she conjures a small horse. In front of the carp, Chinnan, holding a bowl from which issues a column of smoke enveloping a dragon. At her right sits Tekkai breathing forth a diminutive reproduction of herself. To the right, and facing the latter, stands Korejin with his tiger companion, the tail of which rises - true to tradition - in a sweeping curve back of the lady's head. Next, at the right, stands Chokinka cutting fragments of cloth from her garments, and tossing them into the air, where they instantly turn into butterflies. And below, in his kneeling position, Gaga-Sennin plays with his fabulous toad."
place: label: made in
content: Tokyo, Japan
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1963-12-1-a
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Woodcut on paper, mounted
label: Dimensions
content: 37.4 x 75 cm (14 3/4 x 29 1/2 in.)