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  • Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) as a boatman at a ship festival (祭礼御迎ひ船) from a series of seven kabuki changes (七変化ノ内)
Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) as a boatman at a ship festival (祭礼御迎ひ船) from a series of seven kabuki changes (七変化ノ内)
Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) as a boatman at a ship festival (祭礼御迎ひ船) from a series of seven kabuki changes (七変化ノ内)
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Jukōdō Yoshikuni (寿好堂よし国) (artist )

Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) as a boatman at a ship festival (祭礼御迎ひ船) from a series of seven kabuki changes (七変化ノ内)

Print

01/1826
9.375 in x 13.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Jukōdō Yoshikuni
寿好堂よし国画
Artist's seal in red: Yoshi
Publisher: Honya Seishichi
(Marks 123 - seal 25-527)
Waseda University
Hankyu Culture Foundation
Kamigata Osaka Museum This print is from a series of seven showing off Nakamura Shikan II's versatility.

The Waseda University site indicates that this performance was part of a mime that originated in the 14th century and was called mibu kyōgen (壬生狂言). According to Samuel L. Leiter this style is still being performed at the Mibu Temple in Kyoto.

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The poem on the left reads: 乗そめや恵方に向ひてうかれ出し　芝翫
Honya Seishichi (本屋清七) (publisher)
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Nakamura Shikan II (二代目中村芝翫: 11/1825 - 12/1835) (actor)