Utagawa Kunihiro (歌川国広) (artist )
Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Miyamoto Musashi (宮本無三四)
01/1832
9.5 in x 14.75 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Kunihiro ga (国廣画)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei
(Marks 536 - seal 26-155)
British Museum
Hankyu Culture Foundation
Royal Museums of Art and History, Belgium (via Cultural Japan) This print commemorates a performance of Katakiuchi Nito Eiyūki (復讐二島英雄記 - かたきうちにとうえいゆうき) at the Chikugo Theater in 1/1832.
Katakiuchi (復讐) means 'vendetta' or 'revenge'. Eiyūki is 英勇記. The ki part (記) means 'chronicle'.
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Illustrated:
1) in color in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints), vol. 2, Osaka, 1998, no 61.
2) in black and white in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections: British Museum III, supervised by Muneshige Narazaki, Kodansha Ltd, 1988, p. 265.
Tenmaya Kihei (天満屋喜兵衛) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
warrior prints (musha-e - 武者絵) (genre)
Arashi Rikan II (二代目嵐璃寛: 9/1828 - 6/1837) (actor)
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本無三四) (role)
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (author)