Title | Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Lady Iwafuji and Segawa Kikunojō V as Ohatsu Tsubone Iwafuji Ichikawa Danjūrō Ohatsu Segawa Kikunojō 局岩藤 市川團十郎 おはつ 瀬川菊之 |
Artist | Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) 歌川国貞 (三代目豊国) (1786–1865) |
Date | 1831 |
Play | Botan ni chō hatsu ga fumibako |
Theatre | Kawarasaki |
Publisher | Kawaguchiya Shōzō (Shōeidō) 川口屋正蔵 (正栄堂) |
City | Edo |
Signature | Gototei Kunisada ga 五渡亭国貞画 |
Censorship seal(s) | kiwame 極 |
Publisher’s seal(s) | Kawa-Shō 川正 |
Technique & material | Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper |
Format | ōban diptych |
Width | 25.9 cm (R); 25.8 cm (M) |
Height | 38.2 cm (both sheets) |
Object number | SH2018-DM-047 |
Credit Line | Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma |
Provenance | Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma |
The inscription above the actors contains the dialogue of this particular scene. A reissue of this same design exists, also published by Kawaguchiya Shōzō, in which the two actors are replaced by Bandō Mitsugorō (Iwafuji) and Nakamura Shikan (Ohatsu). They played the roles some ten years later in the play Sakura-doki onna gyōretsu. In this later edition the faces and names, including those given in the dialogue, are changed. Remarkably, in this later edition Kunisada's signature is replaced by that of his fellow Utagawa school member Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). Kuniyoshi also created a triptych of this play in 1832 for Kawaguchiya's publishing firm Shōeidō.