Catalog record · 目録番号 40688

Otokonosuke, Yorikane, Yashio, Nikki Danjo, Tanizo, Benkei, Katsumoto, Dotetsu

男之助、頼かね、八汐、仁木だん正、谷蔵、弁慶、かつ元、道てつ

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Kuniyoshi歌川国芳
Date / 年代: 1849
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital image / 画像: 750 × 1058 px
Published by / 公開者: 小春ユイ

Catalog note / 解説

Colour woodblock print, oban tate-e. Nine portraits of Ichikawa Danjuro VIII; the first seven are from the play 'Date kurabe okuni kabuki', the other two are from the play 'Kanjincho', both produced at the Kawarazaki theatre in the third month of Kaei 2 (1849). The parts (top, right to left) 1) Otoko-no suke Teruhide, 2) Nikki Danjo Saemon, 3) Hosokawa Shuri-no-suke Katsumoto, 4) Ashikaga Sakingo Yorikane, 5) the wrestler Kinugawa Tanizo, 6) Dote Datetsu, 7) Yashio, elder sister of Nikki Danjo, 8) Benkei, 9) in offstage clothes.

Image record / 画像情報

BM · 1849 · bm

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