Signed: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi hitsu
一勇斎国芳筆
Seal: Kuniyoshi
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburō
(Marks 127 - seal 11-001)
Censor seals: Murata and Mera
Related links: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; Hagi Uragami Museum of Art; Lyon Collection - related Kuniyoshi diptych from this same play;Lyon Collection - another related Kuniyoshi diptych from this same play;
This print commemorates a performance of the play Takagi Oriemon Budō Jitsuroku (高木織右武実録) at the Nakamura Theater.
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Illustrated:
1) In color in Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi 1797-1861 by Robert Schaap, p. 161.
2) In color in Kuniyoshi by Jūzō Suzuki, Heibonsha Limited, Publishers, 1992, no. 316.
3) In color in Japanese Prints: Images of the Floating World, Barry Davies Oriental Art, #72, illustrated on p. 95.
See another print in the Lyon Collection in which two actors seem to struggle over a similar Daruma scroll.