| | Stockno.: | 20-139 | Artist: | Utagawa Kunimasa IV 四代 歌川国政 (1848-1920) | Description: | Shikake-e (trick picture) titled ‘Chitose-za, Shin Kyōgen Kawari-e’ (New plays at the Chitose-za theatre, changing pictures).
Interior of Chitose-za kabuki theatre in Tokyo, showing the various stages of a play with a flip-through inset featuring six scenes. The theatre opened in 1873 as the Meiji theatre, re-opened and renamed in February 1885 as Chitose-za.
Published by Fukuda Kumajirō in 1886.
| Signed: | Baidō Kunimasa hitsu. | Size: | oban | Condition: | Good impression, colour and condition. Text in French added in the top margin. Left margin slightly stained. | Price: | 750 euro SOLD | Reference: | | | | |
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