/internal/media/dispatcher/971321/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailActors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Matsugae Matonosuke (R) and Bandō Hikosaburō V as Nikki Danjō (L)1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyū 1), 4th month (R); 1857 (Ansei 4), 10th month (L)Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)Daikokuya Kinnosuke (Kinjirō)Vertical ōban diptych; 37.5 x 51.3 cm (14 3/4 x 20 3/16 in.)Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paperWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection11.21569-700Diptych: 11.21569 (right), 11.21570 (left)
Play: Date Kurabe Okuni Kabuki
Theater: Nakamura
伊達競阿国歌舞妓 だてくらべおくにかぶき
中村
1861、文久０１
The left sheet of the diptych was recycled, without any alterations, from an earlier production, in which the same actor had played the same role, at the Ichimura Theater in 1857. See 11.44296a-c for the first version.
For a similar, earlier case of recycling by the same publisher, see 11.40825a-b.
本図は安政4年10月市村座「伊達競阿国戯場」時のものを再利用し、文久2年4月市村座「伊達競阿国歌舞妓」上演時に右図を<1>河原崎権十郎の荒獅子男之助から<8>片岡仁左衛門の松ヶ枝的之助へ変更し、左図は変更せずにそのまま用いたと思われる。Prints37.500000000051247901