print
- Museum number
- 1907,0531,0.384
- Title
- Object: Nakamura Nakazo I as Kudo Suketsune (初代中村仲蔵の工藤祐経)
- Description
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Colour woodblock print, hosoban. The kabuki actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kudo Suketsune in the play ‘Edo Fuji wakayagi Soga’ (江戸富士陽曽我) by Sakurada Jisuke I, performed at the Nakamura-za in the 1st month of 1789 (Tenmei 9).
- Production date
- 1789 (artist)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The contraption at lower left is a fox trap used in the dance ‘Tsuri Gitsune’. It states in the ‘Kabuki Nendaiki’ (p.439) that Nakazo performed the ‘Tsuri Gitsune’ dance again in this ‘Confrontation’ scene「此対面「釣狐」の所作仲蔵再び勤る」. (P.Griffith, 12/2013)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Edo Fuji wakayagi Soga (江戸富士陽曽我) (play)
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Associated Title: Tsuri Gitsune (釣狐) (related play)
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Associated Title: Kotobuki Soga no taimen (related play)
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1907,0531,0.384
