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Actor Nakamura Sankô I as the Courtesan (Keisei) Mangoku, actually Matasuke's Wife (Nyôbô) Ochô


「けいせい万国実は又助女房お蝶 中村さん光」(初代)
Gatôken Shunshi (Japanese, active 1820s)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1825 (Bunsei 8), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25.8 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3213.8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg, Schätze der Kamigata (exh. cat., 2012), #509 (complete triptych); Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #214 (complete triptych)
DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete triptych; 17.3213.9, by Shunchô, is the center sheet.

Play: Keisei Hyakumangoku
Theater: Kado

There is a second, unidentified publisher's mark (Genshoku #190/919).
From an album with decorative paper pasted over the names of the actors.
傾城百万国(けいせいひゃくまんごく)

Signed Shunshi ga
春芝画