Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 15908
Matsumoto Koshiro as Moronao
松本幸四郎の師直
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Kunisada歌川国貞
- Date / 年代
- 1815
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 750 × 987 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- British Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 森川ミドリ
- Rights / 権利
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; commercial license required
- Attribution / 表記
- Copyright The Trustees of the British Museum
Catalog note / 解説
Colour woodblock print, oban. The kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro V as Ko no Moronao, wearing black formal costume of large crested sleeves (‘daimon’) with the ‘eboshi’ court cap and two swords; in Act I, ‘The Grand Prologue’ (‘Daijo’), of the play ‘Kanadehon Chushingura’, by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senryu; performed at the Kawarasaki-za in the 9th month of 1815 (Bunka 12).
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