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triptych print
Object Type
triptych print
Museum number
1915,0823,0.865.1-3
Description
Colour woodblock print, oban triptych. The kabuki actors (right sheet, above) Bando Mitsugoro IV as Yamana Hidanokami, (below, right) Nakamura Tsuruzo I as Kurosawa Kanzo, Seki Sanjuro III as Toko? Onitsura; (Centre sheet, below) Matsumoto Kinsho I as Nikki Danjo; (left sheet, above) Sawamura Chojuro V as Hosokawa Katsumoto, (below, right) Ichikawa Kuzo II as Izutsu Gekizaemon, Onoe Shinshichi III as Yamanaka Shikanosuke and Bando Mitsuzo I as Watanabe Minbu; in the play 'Date zensei sakura no iromaku' by Fujimoto Kichibei and others; performed at the Nakamura-za from the 2nd of the 4th month of 1849 (Kaei 2).
Producer name
Print artist:
Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)
Published by:
Yamaguchiya Tobei 山口屋藤兵衛
Cultures/periods
Kaei Era
Production date
1849
Production place
Made in:
Edo
Materials
paper
Technique
woodblock
colour
$Inscriptions
Location
Not on display
Subjects
kabuki
actor/actress
Associated names
Portrait of:
Morita Kan'ya XI 十一代目守田勘弥
Portrait of:
Nakamura Nakazo III 三代中村仲蔵
Portrait of:
Seki Sanjuro III 三代目関三十郎
Portrait of:
Matsumoto Kinsho I 初代松本錦升
Portrait of:
Sawamura Sojuro V 五代目澤村宗十郎
Portrait of:
Ichikawa Danzo VI 六代目市川団蔵
Portrait of:
Ichikawa Omezo III 三代目市川男女蔵
Portrait of:
Bando Mitsuzo I 初代坂東三津蔵
Representation of:
Yamana Hidanokami (山名飛騨守)
Representation of:
Kurosawa Kanzo 黒澤官蔵
Representation of:
Onitsura (鬼貫)
Representation of:
Nikki Danjo 仁木弾正
Representation of:
Hosokawa Katsumoto 細川勝元
Representation of:
Watanabe Gekizaemon 渡辺外記左衛門
Representation of:
Yamanaka Yukimori 山中幸盛
Representation of:
Watanabe Minbu 渡辺民部
Associated with:
Fujimoto Kichibei 藤本吉兵衛
Associated places
Associated with:
Nakamura-za 中村座
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Date zensei sakura no iromaku (伊達旭盛桜彩幕)
((play))
Associated Title:
Meiboku Sendai hagi (伽羅先代萩)
((related play))
Associated Title:
Taiketsu no Ba (対決の場)
((related scene))
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
Acquisition date
23 Aug 1915
(transfer date)
Acquisition notes
Transferred from Department of Oriental Manuscripts (August 1915)
Department
Asia
Registration number
1915,0823,0.865.1-3