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Onoe Kikugorō descended [to Edo], as [Oiwa] the Lantern Ghost, Acclaimed in the Three Metropolises

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Title Onoe Kikugorō descended [to Edo], as [Oiwa] the Lantern Ghost, Acclaimed in the Three Metropolises Sanganotsu gohyōban no chōchin yūrei – kudari – Onoe Kikugorō 三ヶの津御評判のちやうちんのゆうれゐ　下り　尾上菊五郎
Artist Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) 歌川国貞 (三代目豊国) (1786–1865)
Date 1831
Play Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan
Theatre Ichimura
Publisher Moritaya Hanzō 森田屋半蔵
City Edo
Signature Gototei Kunisada ga 五渡亭国貞画 (afgesneden)
Censorship seal(s) kiwame 極
Publisher’s seal(s) Tama 玉 (afgesneden)
Inscription

[in lantern]

当秋狂言大入叶 俗名お岩大評判

Tōshū kyōgen ōiri kanau zokumyō Oiwa daihyōban

A kyōgen (theatre play) that sold out this autumn: the sensation known as Oiwa
Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban diptych
Width 24.8 cm
Height 34.8 cm
Object number SH2018-DM-027
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma

Description

Left sheet of a diptych. The missing half depicts Seki Sanjūrō II as Kamiya Niemon.

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