Portrait & Design Copyright Record · CPAXA-0032
Utagawa Kunisada — Sumo Wrestling Triptych
Simple rights-diligence record prepared before commercial product use.
Assessment: Original artwork copyright PASS / Commons Public Domain Mark evidence PASS / pre-Commons digital scan provenance unknown / commercial use CONDITIONAL PASS.
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Artwork
Artist
Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)
Work
Sumo Wrestling Triptych
Date
1840s; secondary reference 1843–1844
Technique
Color woodblock triptych
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Primary Digital Source
Source
Wikimedia Commons
File
Kunisada Sumo Triptychon c1860s.jpg
Dimensions
1852 × 891 px
First Upload
2005-09-22T16:55:34Z
Uploader
Kükator~commonswiki
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Rights Verification
Original Artwork
PUBLIC DOMAIN — PASS
Commons
PUBLIC DOMAIN / PDM — PASS
Original File
Preserved locally with SHA-256
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Provenance Limitation
Pre-Commons Scan Source
Unknown / not established
Assessment
Evidence limitation recorded; commercial use remains CONDITIONAL PASS.
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Secondary Reference
Yamada Shoten item 56737 identifies a Kunisada I oban triptych as 鏡岩濱之助・狹布里宗五郎取組の図（仮題）, dated 1843–1844. It is used only for identification and dating, not as the source of the Commons digital file. Yamada Shoten website imagery is not used in the product.
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Commercial Assessment
CONDITIONAL PASS. The historical artwork is public domain and the Commons file carries PDM/public-domain evidence. The remaining limitation is incomplete provenance for the digitization before the 2005 Commons upload.
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QR
Short Code
cpax032Short URL
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Evidence Standard
Portrait Copyright AX Evidence Standard v2.2
Simple Rights-Diligence Record
2026-10-19
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