Triptych: Seizing an Arrow

ca. 1850 (late Edo)

25.4 cm 36.8 cm

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The figure in the middle grabs an arrow--but when and why is not known. The three actors, each in fringed robes, are Bando Hikosaburo V, Sawamura Tanosuke, and Kawarazaki Gonjuro, but the play in which they are appearing has not been identified.

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Mr. Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.
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Utagawa School
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