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Actor Fujikawa Tomokichi II as the Courtesan Tsukinoto


「けいせい月の戸 藤川友吉」(二代目)
Gajuken Shunchô (Japanese, active about 1818–44)
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; 38 x 26 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3213.9
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)
DescriptionCenter sheet of an incomplete triptych; 17.3213.8, by Shunshi, is the left 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 Shunchô ga
春朝画