Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII in Shibaraku, with a Child Dressed as Ebisu and a Monkey

七代目市川団十郎の暫

Japanese

Edo period

about 1827 (Bunsei 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper

Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.1 x 17.6 cm (7 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.9322

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Meissner, Japanese Woodblock Prints in Miniature (1970), pl. 12

DescriptionPossibly a commemoration of the birth of the actor's second son.
暫の<7>市川団十郎と子供と猿を描く。二人目の息子が生まれた時のものヵ。

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画

Inscriptions「暫は鶴の一声聞まゝに又声ひゞく人の山彦　森戯亭歌仙」「声かけ霞の袖や鶴ひしに日の出目出たく見ゆる初春　万間高盛」「筋隈のあかねさす日や初春に声もめてたき鶴ひしの袖　松廼屋其成」「見るに升花もゑみ升栄え升をさなき春を添るそゝ★　森羅亭」