Arashi Rikan als Sasaki Saburo Morimatsu, Shunbaisai Hokuei, 1831

Title(s)

Arashi Rikan als Sasaki Saburo Morimatsu
Sasaki Saburo Moritsuna Arashi Rikan (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1976-138

Catalogue reference

• Jap Cat V 202

Description

De acteur Arashi Rikan II in de rol van de held Sasaki Saburo Morimatsu, in hofkleding, met twee zwaarden, onder een opgerold gordijn. Scene uit het toneelstuk Omi Genji Senjin Yakata.

Artist

• print maker: Shunbaisai Hokuei (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Honya Seishichi (mentioned on object)

Place

Osaka

Dating

1831

Material

• paper
• gold powder

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 378 mm × width 253 mm

What

• portrait of actor, actress
• hacking and thrusting weapons: sword

Who

• Arashi Rikan II

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 1976

Copyright

Public domain

• 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, p. 133, cat.nr. 202
• The Floating World, London 1973, no. I, 32