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Actors Nakamura Utaemon III as Yamazaki Yogorô (R) and Nakamura Karoku I as Fujiya Azuma (L)


「山崎与五郎 中村歌右衛門」 「ふじ屋あづま 中村歌六」
Shunshosai Hokuchô (Japanese, active 1822–1830)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1827 (Bunsei 10), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 37.6 x 50.9 cm (14 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3210.22-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 96 (as 11.35315-6; this # not listed); Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #192; Riccar Museum, Kamigata Ukiyo-e 200-nen ten (1975), #85
DescriptionDiptych: 17.3210.22 (left), 17.3210.23 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.35315-6, 17.3210.22-3

From an album in which the names of the actors were covered with slips of decorative paper.

Play: Futatsu Chôcho Kuruwa Nikki
Theater: Kado
双蝶々曲輪日記 (ふたつちょうちょうくるわにっき)

Signed Shunshosai Hokuchô ga (on each sheet)
春曙斎北頂画