Facebook
sprite-icon-instagram
Twitter
sprite-icon-wechat
Weibo
X
sprite-icon-youtube
sprite-icon-accessible
Group 3
sprite-icon-arrow
sprite-icon-audio-description
sprite-icon-calendar
sprite-icon-camera
UI/Chevron/Large/Black
sprite-icon-chevron
Artboard 1
sprite-icon-copyright
sprite-icon-data
sprite-icon-download
sprite-icon-grid
sprite-icon-image
i
sprite-icon-list
sprite-icon-magazine
sprite-icon-maximise
sprite-icon-museum
sprite-icon-osd-minus
sprite-icon-osd-plus
Group 6
sprite-icon-pin
sprite-icon-plus
sprite-icon-print
Fill 1
sprite-icon-share
sprite-icon-shop
sprite-icon-tag
sprite-icon-tea
sprite-icon-ten-percent-tag
Artboard 1
sprite-icon-wallet
sprite-icon-zoom
Skip to main content
Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.
Menu
Main navigation
Visit
Toggle Visit submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Visit
—
Visit
—
Family visits
—
Group visits
—
Audio app
—
Out-of-hours tours
—
Tours and talks
—
Object trails
—
Accessibility
—
Food and drink
—
Late opening on Fridays
—
Museum map
Exhibitions and events
Collection
Toggle Collection submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Collection
—
Collection
—
Collection online
—
Galleries
—
Blog
—
The British Museum podcast
Learn
Toggle Learn submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Learn
—
Learn
—
Schools
—
Communities
—
Adult learning
—
Young people
Membership
Toggle Membership submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Membership
—
Membership
—
Members' events
—
Young Friends
—
Existing Members
—
Visiting as a Member
Support us
Toggle Support us submenu
Back
to previous menu
—
Support us
—
Donate
—
Corporate support
—
Become a Patron
—
Supporter case studies
—
Become a Volunteer
—
Existing Patrons
—
Leave a legacy
—
American Friends of the British Museum
Secondary navigation
Shop
Search
Donate
Hide menu
print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1907,0531,0.48
Title
Object:
Sawamura Sojuro III as Enya Hangan 三代目沢村宗十郎の塩谷判官
Description
Colour woodblock print, oban. The kabuki actor Sawamura Sojuro III as the daimyo Enya Hangan Takasada, wearing formal attire (‘kamishimo’) including trailing ‘nagabakama’, in the play ‘Kanadehon Chushingura’ (仮名手本忠臣蔵) by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senryu; performed at the Miyako-za from the 4th month of 1795 (Kansei 7).
Producer name
Print artist:
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英
Cultures/periods
Kansei Era
Production date
1795
Production place
Made in:
Edo
Materials
paper
Technique
woodblock
colour
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
[Sawamura Sojuro III as En'ya Hangan] In the summer of 1795 all three Kabuki theatres staged rival productions of "Chushingura" which were depicted in rival groups of prints by Toyokuni and Shun'ei. Enya Hangan is the young lord who is forced to commit ritual suicide. (Label copy, TTC 1995)
Bibliographic references
Binyon 1916 / A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(28)
Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan Vol 2 / Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan
(104)
Tokyo Edo 1990 / Daiei Hakubutsukan hizō "Edo bijutsuten" : Edo Tōkyō 400-nen kinen (Special Collection of the British Museum: Exhibition of Edo Arts)
(357)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2001, 30 Jan-8 Apr, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Arts of Japan: Recently repaired paintings, Ukiyo-e IV'
Subjects
actor/actress
kabuki
costume/clothing
daimyo
Associated names
Portrait of:
Sawamura Sojuro III 三代目澤村宗十郎
Representation of:
Enya Hangan 塩冶判官
Associated places
Associated with:
Miyako-za 都座
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Kanadehon Chushingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
((play))
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Sir Hickman Bacon
Acquisition date
1907
Department
Asia
Registration number
1907,0531,0.48