diptych print
- Museum number
- 1915,0823,0.870.1-2
- Title
- Object: Kawarasaki Gonjuro I as Nuregami Chogoro and Iwai Kumesaburo III as the nursemaid Otora 初代河原崎権十郎の濡髪長五郎と三代目岩井粂三郎の子守おとら
- Description
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Colour woodblock print, oban diptych. The kabuki actors (right sheet) Kawarasaki Gonjuro I as the sumo wrestler Nuregami Chogoro, seated on a bench holding a tobacco pipe (‘kiseru’) in one hand, and a tobacco case with netsuke in the other; and Iwai Kumesaburo III as the nursemaid (‘komori’) Otora offering him a cup of tea; in the play ‘Sekai mo awase chocho komon’ (世界袷蝶々小紋, also read ‘Sekai awasete chocho komon’) by Kawatake Shinshichi II; performed at the Ichimura-za from the 28th of the 4th month of 1859 (Ansei 6).
- Production date
- 1859
- Dimensions
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Height: 35.70 centimetres
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Width: 25.60 centimetres
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2014 July-October, BM Galleries, 'Japan from Prehistory to the Present'
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Sekai mo awase chocho komon (世界袷蝶々小紋) ((play))
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Associated Title: Sekai awasete chocho komon (世界袷蝶々小紋) ((alternate reading))
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Associated Title: Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記) ((related play))
- Acquisition date
- 1915
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from Department of Oriental Manuscripts (August 1915)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1915,0823,0.870.1-2
