triptych print(?);
diptych print(?)
- Museum number
- 1907,0531,0.214.1-2
- Title
- Object: Ichikawa Ebizo V, Ichikawa Enzo I, Ichikawa Danjuro VIII and Kawarasaki Chojuro III making an announcement from the stage 五代目市川海老蔵 初代市川猿蔵 八代目市川団十郎 三代目河原崎長十郎 御目見得口上
- Description
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Colour woodblock print, oban diptych. The kabuki actors (right sheet, from right) Kawarasaki Chojuro III, an unidentified actor, and Ichikawa Danjuro VIII; (left sheet, from right) Ichikawa Enzo I and Ichikawa Ebizo V; greeting the audience at the Kawarasaki-za in an official ‘kojo’ (口上) announcement from the stage on the occasion of Ebizo’s return to Edo in the 3rd month of 1850 (Kaei 3).
- Production date
- 1850
- Dimensions
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Height: 36.80 centimetres (left)
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Height: 36.60 centimetres (right)
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Width: 36.60 centimetres (left)
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Width: 25 centimetres (right)
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- Curator's comments
- Ebizo had returned to perform in Edo after an absence of nine years. Like Danjuro VIII and Chojuro III (later Danjuro IX), Ichikawa Enzo I (1835-55) was also one of Ebizo’s sons. The text of this ‘kojo’ stage announcement is given in the ‘Kabuki Nendaiki’, zokuhen, pp.570-575. (P. Griffith 8/2012)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1907,0531,0.214.1-2
