Catalog record · 目録番号 2532

Ichikawa Danjuro as Minamoto Yoshitsune, Ichikawa Ebizo as Benkei

市川団十郎の源よしつね、市川海老蔵の弁けい

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)歌川国貞（三代歌川豊国）
Date / 年代: 1840
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital image / 画像: 750 × 1097 px
Published by / 公開者: 朝倉レン

Catalog note / 解説

Colour woodblock print, left sheet of an oban diptych. The kabuki actors Ichikawa Ebizo V as Benkei, clutching the fake subscription scroll in his left hand as he raises his staff with his right, about to strike the porter, and Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Minamoto Yoshitsune disguised as the porter, in the play ‘The Subscription Scroll’ (‘Kanjincho’), from the ‘Kabuki Juhachiban’, by Namiki Gohei III with music by Kineya Rokusaburo IV; performed at the Kawarasaki-za in the 3rd month of 1840 (Tenpo 11).

Image record / 画像情報

BM · 1840 · bm

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