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- Language: Japanese
- Creators: Utagawa Kunisada
- Creators: Utagawa Kunisada II
- Creators: Toyohara Chikanobu
- Creators: 渡辺 彫栄
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / Horikō Shōji (Contributor) / 彫工 庄治 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1854
Description
Depicted are the characters Kujaku Saburō Narihira 孔雀 三郎 成平 (left), Ono Komachi 小野 小町 (center), and Ōtomo Kuronushi 大伴 黒主 (right).
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / Koizumi Hori Kane (Contributor) / 小泉 彫 兼 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1860
Description
Depicted are the kabuki actors Nakamura Shikan IV 四代目 中村 芝翫 as the wood cutter Ōtomo Kuronushi 大伴 黒主, who is plotting a coup d'état, and Sawamura Tanosuke III 三代目 中村 芝翫 as Sumizome 墨染, the spirit of the cherry tree.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Contributor)
Created1852
Description
This diptych portrays the actors Ichikawa Ebizō V 五代目 市川 海老蔵 as Musashibō Benkei 武蔵坊 辨慶 (left) and Ichikawa Danjurō VIII 八代目 市川 団十郎 as Togashi Saemon 富樫 左衛門 (right).
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1851
Description
This diptych shows the ghost of Asakura Tōgo 朝倉當吾 returning to haunt the man responsible for his death, the corrupt governor Orikoshi Tairyō 織越大領. A kappa (a traditional folk monster) tumbles comically at Orikoshi’s feet.
ContributorsToyohara Chikanobu (Artist) / 豊原 周延 (Artist)
Created1898
Description
At the front and center of this triptych is Akoya, an entertainer in the pleasure quarters of Kyoto. She was mistress to an aristocrat, a Heike warrior named Taira Kagekiyo (died 1196). In 1185 he was captured in the battle of Dan-no-ura, but was able to escape. Akoya was interrogated about his whereabouts by Iwanga Saemon Munetsura, an assistant of Hatakeyama Shigetada (samurai that fought in the Dan-no-ura battle) in a palace at Horikawa. He threatened Akoya with torture if she would not reveal where Taira was hiding. Shigetada had his own plan to discover if she told the truth and presented Akoya with three instruments and asked her to perform for him. Depicted is Akoya playing the koto, also known as a zither. In her song Akoya sings of her love for Taira Kagekiyo in such a pure and steady manner that Shigetada, who is seen holding his fan upright, has no reason not to trust her and accepts that she does not know where Taira is. Iwanga looks irritated as he rests his arm on a brazier. Akoya is then released.
"Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki" was originally written for the puppet theater and staged for the first time in September 1732 in Osaka. It was adapted for the kabuki stage that same month in Kyoto.
"Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki" was originally written for the puppet theater and staged for the first time in September 1732 in Osaka. It was adapted for the kabuki stage that same month in Kyoto.
ContributorsToyohara Chikanobu (Artist) / 豊原 周延 (Artist)
Created1887
Description
Depicted in this triptych is Ushiwakamaru, who would later be known as the great warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune. He is being led by a servant with a lantern to a secret meeting with the bashful Princess Joruri. According to the 15th century story, Joruri, the daughter of Yoshioka Ki’ichi, fell in love with Ushiwakamaru during a brief visit and then committed suicide when he left to continue his journey. The princess stands inside the doorway, holding her sleeve to her mouth, her kimono trailing onto the floor around her. The warrior pauses on the stepping stones in the garden, looking over his shoulder to admire the full moon softly glowing overhead, a flute in his hand.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Kawaguchiya Uhei (Publisher) / 川口屋 宇兵衛 (Publisher)
Created1846
DescriptionThis print is the right panel of a triptych that shows three women caught in a beam of light from a stone lantern while viewing cherry blossoms at night.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Kiya Sōjirō (Publisher) / 木屋 宗次郎 (Publisher)
Created1864
DescriptionThe onnagata actor, Sawamura Tanosuke, as Shiranui Daijin in the kabuki play Kinoene Soga Daikokubashira 甲子曽我大国柱.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Tsutaya Kichizō (Publisher) / 蔦屋 吉蔵 (Publisher) / Hori Shōji (Contributor) / 彫 庄治 (Contributor)
Created1852
DescriptionThe kabuki actor Seki Sanjūrō II portrays the character Amazaki Jūichirō Terufumi from the dramatization of the 106-volume 19th century novel, Nansō Satomi Hakkenden 南總里見八犬傳 (The Tale of Eight Dogs), by Kyokutei Bakin.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada (Artist) / 歌川 国貞 (Artist) / Jōshūya Kinzō (Publisher) / 上州屋 錦蔵 (Publisher) / Hori Take (Contributor) / 彫竹 (Contributor)
Created1854
DescriptionThis print shows a scene from a play about the story of the Soga brothers, with the actors Arashi Kichisaburō III嵐吉三郎 (三代目) as Nitta Tadatsune 仁田忠常 and Kataoka Gadō II片岡我童 (二代目) as Soga Sukenari 曽我祐成.