diptych print

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Object Type
Museum number: 2018,3021.82.1-2
Description: Diptych print, colour woodblock. Double portrait of kabuki actors Ichikawa Ebizo V (Danjuro VII) as Seno’o Taro (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Shibuya Kaneomaru Masatoshi (left), in a ‘Shibaraku’ scene from the play ‘Koi yoriiru tsui no yumitori (恋入対弓取) by Kanazawa Ryugyoku II; performed at the Ichimura-za in the 11th month of 1833 (Tenpo 4). The young Danjuro VIII is depicted on the ‘hanamichi’ runway delivering the ‘tsurane’ speech of self-introduction, as Ebizo looks on from the main stage.
Producer name: Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III); Published by: Daikokuya Isaburo 大黒屋伊三郎
School/style
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1833 (Eleventh month)
Production place: Published in: Edo
Materials
Technique: woodblock; colour
Dimensions: Height: 37.30 centimetres (left); Height: 37.80 centimetres (right); Width: 26.10 centimetres (left); Width: 26.20 centimetres (right)
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Named in inscription & portrayed: Ichikawa Danjuro VII 七代目市川団十郎; Representation of: Shibuya Kaneomaru Masatoshi 渋谷金王丸昌俊; Named in inscription & portrayed: Ichikawa Danjuro VIII 八代目市川団十郎; Representation of: Seno’o Taro 瀬の尾太郎; Associated with: Kanazawa Ryugyoku II (二代目金沢竜玉) (playwright)
Associated places: Associated with: Ichimura-za
Associated titles: Associated Title: Shibaraku (Scene); Associated Title: Koi yoriiru tsui no yumitori 恋入対弓取 (play)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 2018
Department: Asia
Registration number: 2018,3021.82.1-2

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