Dubbelportret van Arashi Kichisaburo en Nakamura Utaemon, Shunkôsai Hokushû, 1820

Title(s)

Dubbelportret van Arashi Kichisaburo en Nakamura Utaemon

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1976-137

Catalogue reference

• Jap Cat V 206

Description

Dubbelportret van de acteurs Arashi Kichisaburo II in de rol van prins Koretake (rechts, in groene kimono met draakmotief) en Nakamura Utaemon III als Kato Masakiyo (links, in zwart-wit kostuum).

Artist

• print maker: Shunkôsai Hokushû (mentioned on object)

Place

Osaka

Dating

Sep-1820

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 379 mm × width 254 mm

What

• portrait of actor, actress
• adult man (+ two persons)

Who

• Arashi Kichisaburo II
• Nakamura Utaemon III

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1976

Copyright

Public domain

• Kabuki heroes on the Osaka stage 1780-1830, Timothy T. Clark, C. Andrew Gerstle, Akiko Yano, 207, cat.nr. 188
• The age of Yoshitoshi : Japanese prints from the Meiji and Taishō periods : Nagasaki, Yokohama and Kamigata prints : recent acquisitions, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Jan Frederik Heijbroek, 135, cat.nr. 206
• R. Keyes, the theatrical world of Osaka-school, 1973, p. 13, no. 196