• Kataoka Gadō II [片岡我童] as Fukumasuya Daisuke (福升屋大助) and Nakamura Tamashichi I (Shikan's son) [芝翫倅中村玉七] as Akechi Tsuruwakamaru (明智鶴若丸) in the play <i>Keisei Ishikawa-zome</i> ('A courtesan and dyed Ishikawa colors')
Kataoka Gadō II [片岡我童] as Fukumasuya Daisuke (福升屋大助) and Nakamura Tamashichi I (Shikan's son) [芝翫倅中村玉七] as Akechi Tsuruwakamaru (明智鶴若丸) in the play <i>Keisei Ishikawa-zome</i> ('A courtesan and dyed Ishikawa colors')
Kataoka Gadō II [片岡我童] as Fukumasuya Daisuke (福升屋大助) and Nakamura Tamashichi I (Shikan's son) [芝翫倅中村玉七] as Akechi Tsuruwakamaru (明智鶴若丸) in the play <i>Keisei Ishikawa-zome</i> ('A courtesan and dyed Ishikawa colors')
Kataoka Gadō II [片岡我童] as Fukumasuya Daisuke (福升屋大助) and Nakamura Tamashichi I (Shikan's son) [芝翫倅中村玉七] as Akechi Tsuruwakamaru (明智鶴若丸) in the play <i>Keisei Ishikawa-zome</i> ('A courtesan and dyed Ishikawa colors')
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Utagawa Sadayoshi (歌川貞芳) (artist )

Kataoka Gadō II [片岡我童] as Fukumasuya Daisuke (福升屋大助) and Nakamura Tamashichi I (Shikan's son) [芝翫倅中村玉七] as Akechi Tsuruwakamaru (明智鶴若丸) in the play Keisei Ishikawa-zome ('A courtesan and dyed Ishikawa colors')

Print

01/1848
Japanese color woodblock print
Signed: Sadayoshi ga (貞芳画)
Publisher: Shibaya Ihee
Seal: Shibai: 柴イ - not listed in Marks
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Hankyu Culture Foundation
National Gallery, Prague
Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago This print commemorates a performance of Keisei Ishikawazome (けいせい石川染) at the Chikugo Theater in Osaka in 1/1848. This play was one of many related to the story of Ishikawa Goemon. However, the plot of this particular play is unknown today.

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Illustrated in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints), vol. 3, Ikeda Bunko Library, Osaka 2001, no. 195.

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The text in the white cartouche says: 玉／＼男と生れ来た身を持ながら女とすがたかゑねばならぬ世のせゐすいこれに付ても思ひ出すはそちが実父明知左馬五郎と此蔵之助は稚イときよりすぐれてのこんゐ別して五六年此方はたかゐにちからとなりをゝて身過世過の其内に思ゐがけなふ梅良院とついに此世をさりとてははかない別れ

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Doing the math, what appears to be a small child, Akechi Tsuruwakamaru, would be 11 or 12 years old. The actor had been born in 1837 and this print is dated to 1848.
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
Kataoka Gadō II (二代目片岡我童: from 1837 to 12/1856) (actor)
Nakamura Tamashichi I (初代中村玉七) (actor)