Catalog record · 目録番号 134139
Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) as Ikyû and Ichikawa Hakuen (Danjûrô VII) as Sukeroku
Catalog note / 解説
This woodblock print depicts two actors in the play <i>Sukeroku yukari no Edo-zakura</i> (Sukeroku: Flower of Edo) at the Kado theatre in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in 1830. At the top right is the actor Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) in the role of Ikyû, while at the bottom left is the actor Ichikawa Hakuen (Danjûrô VII) as Sukeroku. The play recounts Sukeroku's quest to find his family's treasured sword, Tomokirimaru. Discovering that Ikyû possesses it, he kills him and retrieves the sword. Images of kabuki actors are an important genre within Japanese woodblock prints. Both kabuki theatre and woodblock prints flourished in the Edo period (1615-1868), products of the increasingly vibrant urba…
Image record / 画像情報
VAM · 1830 · vam
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