Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 2614

Sono mukashi Hidari Jingoro ga meiyo no fukugoto

其昔左甚五郎が名誉の旧事

Artist / 作者
Utagawa Kunisada歌川国貞
Date / 年代
1847
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital record / 画像記録
750 × 1075 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 triptych. The kabuki actors (from left) Nakamura Utaemon IV as the sculptor Hidari Jingoro, Onoe Baiko IV as the life-size doll of a courtesan (‘Oyama ningyo’) emerging from a large wooden box, and Arashi Koroku V as Jingoro’s wife Otsuya, in the dance ‘Shiki no hina Asakusa hakkei’, (alternate reading ‘Toki no hina Asakusa hakkei’, commonly called ‘Kyo ningyo’), by Sakurada Jisuke III; performed at the Kawarasaki-za in the 4th month of 1847 (Koka 4).

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