Catalog record · 目録番号 47313
polyptych print (?)
Catalog note / 解説
Colour woodblock print, oban polyptych from an album of 117 sheets. A six sheet composition depicting an imaginary performance (mitate) of the 'Confrontation of the Soga brothers' (Soga no taimen), each sheet numbered one to six. Sheet 1: the kabuki actors Matsumoto Koshiro V as (Omi no) Kotoda with swords, Nakamura Matsue III as the courtesan Shosho and Seki Sanjuro II as Izu no Jiro; sheet 2: Ichikawa Dannosuke III as the courtesan (Oiso no) Tora, Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kudo (Suketsune) and Segawa Tamon I as (Soga no) Ninomiya; sheet 3: Ichikawa Ichizo I as Yoshimori, Bando Mitsugoro III as Yawata (Saburo) and Bando Minosuke II as Kenbomaru; sheet 4: Iwai Kumesaburo II as Maizuru, Matsum…
Image record / 画像情報
BM · 1808-1812 (circa) · bm
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