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Actors Arashi Rikan II as Chinzai Hachirô Tametomo (R) and Iwai Shijaku I as Princess Neiwannyo of the Ryûkyû Kingdom


二代目嵐璃寛の鎮西八郎為朝  初代岩井紫若の琉球国ノねいわん女
Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese, active about 1824–1837, died 1837)
Japanese
Edo period
1833 (Tenpô 4), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 34.2 x 48.8 cm (13 7/16 x 19 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3214.21-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 100; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 5, Victoria and Albert Museum II (1987), pl. 161; Keyes, PMA cat. (1973), #162, and pl. 45
DescriptionDiptych: 17.3214.21 (left), 17.3211.22 (right)

Play: Shimameguri Tsuki no Yumihari
島廻月弓張(しまめぐりつきのゆみはり)
Signed Shunkôsai Hokuei ga (on each sheet)
春江斎北英画