DepartmentAsia
Actor Onoe Waichi II as a Tofu Seller (Tofukai) and a One-Legged Umbrella Monster (Kasa Obake), from the series Magic Lantern Slides in a Dance of Seven Changes (Utsushi-e shichihenge no uchi)
NameWoodblock Print (Ukiyo-e)
Maker
Toyokuni III
(1786 - 1864)
CultureJapanese
Date1857
Place madeJapan, East Asia, Asia
MediumPaper, ink
Dimensions17 11/16 × 13 × 1/16 in. (45 × 33 × 0.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, museum purchase, A.2017.88.1
Object numberA.2017.88.1
DescriptionPrint (Ukiyo-e) of two figures, one male in a dancing posture dressed in traditional garb (tofu seller) above him is a one-legged figure (Kasa Obake), background is a soft grey, dancing figure is holding dish with wafting white cloud coming from his tofu.
!["The Syllable Wi (ゐ) for Revenge of the Cripple (Izari no adauchi - ゐさりの仇うち)” [Iwai Kumesaburō III as Hatsuhana and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Katsugorō]; from the Series: “The Seven Variations of the Iroha (Seisho Nanatsu Iroha)”](/internal/media/dispatcher/143458/thumbnail)
Ca. 1960
Artist unrecorded
