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[Nakamura Shikan IV as] Yamagata Gyōbunosuke, actually Inada Kōzō

An untitled series of actors with poems in their own handwriting

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Title [Nakamura Shikan IV as] Yamagata Gyōbunosuke, actually Inada Kōzō Yamagata Gyōbunosuke jitsu wa Inada Kōzō 山形刑部之助実ハ稲田幸蔵
Series title An untitled series of actors with poems in their own handwriting
Artist Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) 歌川国貞 (三代目豊国) (1786–1865)
Date 5/1861
Play Kutsuwa no oto tazuna no somewake 轡音繮染分
Theatre Ichimura
Publisher Kagiya Shōbei 鍵屋庄兵衛
Woodcarver Koizumi Kanegorō 小泉兼五郎
City Edo
Signature Toyokuni ga 豊國画
Censorship seal(s) aratame Rooster 5 改酉五
Publisher’s seal(s) Ta Kagi-Shō 田鍵庄
Blockcutter’s (and/or) printer’s) seal(s) hori kō Koizumi Kane 彫工小泉兼
Inscription

Poem by Nakamura Shikan IV:

いつわりて通るお庭や杜若　芝翫「成駒」

Itsuwarite tōru oniwa ya botan —Shikan [sealed Narikoma]
Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban
Object number SH2018-DM-216
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma

Description

From a large, untitled series of actor portraits paired with poems composed by and in the handwriting of the actors themselves. Most of the backgrounds were designed by Miyagi Gengyo (1817–1880). Kunisada made a series with the same format for publisher Uoya Eikichi in the same year.

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