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Actor Iwai Shijaku I as both Osome and Hisamatsu, among the Seven Roles in a Farewell Performance (Onagori kyôgen, shichiyaku no uchi)


「御名残狂言 七役之内 久松・おそめ 岩井紫若」(初代)
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Publisher: Wataya Kihei (Wataki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1835 (Tenpô 6), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.6 x 24.3 cm (14 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3212.22
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 101
DescriptionDiptych: 11.21991 (left sheet), 17.3212.22 (right sheet); no VR

Play: Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Yomiuri
Theater: Naka

From an album with decorative paper pasted over the names of the actors.
お染久松色読販(おそめひさまつうきなのよみうり)

Signed Shunbaisai Hokuei ga
春梅斎北英画