Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 2563

ichikawa Yaozo changing names to Seki Sanjuro as Heiji Kagetaka

市川八百蔵改関三十郎の平次景高

Artist / 作者
Utagawa Kunisada歌川国貞
Date / 年代
1840
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital record / 画像記録
750 × 1068 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
British Museum
Published by / 公開者
紫藤メイ
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 Seki Sanjuro III as Heiji Kagetaka, from Act II, ‘The Disinheriting of Genta’ (‘Genta kando’), in the play ‘Hiragana seisuiki’, (also ‘Hirakana seisuiki’), by Bunkodo, Miyoshi Shoraku, Asada Kakei and Takeda Izumo II; performed at the Ichimura-za in the 4th month of 1840 (Tenpo 11). A poem by the actor above signed and sealed.

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