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Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Usui Sadamitsu in a Shibaraku Scene, with Segawa Kikunojô V as Shôkajo


七代目市川団十郎の碓井定光にて暫、五代目瀬川菊之丞の桝花女
Katsukawa Shuntei (Shôkôsai) (Japanese, 1770–1824)
Japanese
Edo period
1819 (Bunsei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.3 x 18.7 cm (8 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number37.338
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Surimono (2013), #493; Rijksmuseum cat. IV, Hiroshige and the Utagawa School (1984), #262; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 419
DescriptionPlay (Shosa): Yama Mata Yama Oyotsume Banashi
Play: Shitennô Ubuyu no Tamagawa
Theater: Tamagawa
Date of performance: 1818.11

Poem by Issen translated in Forrer 2013, p. 260.
巍魂宿直噺(やままたやまおよつめばなし)
四天王産湯玉川(してんのううぶゆのたまがわ)
玉川
1818、戊寅、文政01、11・25
Signed Kyuko Shuntei ga
春亭画
InscriptionsPoems by Issen and Danshûrô Enba
ProvenanceReceived in exchange with Fogg for 17.1454