![Nakamura Utaemon I (中村歌右衛門) as the Monk Seigen of Kiyomizu Temple from the play <i>Soga Moyō Aigo no Wakamatsu</i> [そがもよう あいごのわかまつ] [曾我?愛護若松]](https://woodblockprints.org/media/lyon_collection/images/1/2/78811_ca_object_representations_media_1282_large.jpg)
Katsukawa Shunshō (勝川春章) (artist 1726 – 1792)
Nakamura Utaemon I (中村歌右衛門) as the Monk Seigen of Kiyomizu Temple from the play Soga Moyō Aigo no Wakamatsu [そがもよう あいごのわかまつ] [曾我?愛護若松]
03/1769
4.875 in x 11.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art Institute, Chicago
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Náprstek Museum This print commemorates a performance of Soga Moyō Aigo no Wakamatsu ('Soga Brothers: Loving Care of Young Pines' - 曾我模様愛護若松) at the Nakamura Theater in Edo in the 3rd month of 1769.
In the other copies linked to above in Boston, Chicago and New York there is a signature, Shunshō ga (春章画) with a Hayashi seal, on the right side of the print. There is neither a signature nor a seal on the print in the Lyon Collection. Also, none of these linked images carries the text printed on the left side as it is here.
This raises the question of whether or not this is a later reproduction. As of now, we don't know.
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Illustrated in:
1) a small black and white reproduction of this image in the back of The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the Katsukawa School, the Art Institute of Chicago in association with Princeton University Press, 1994, #97, p. 376.
2) a small black and white illustration in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Ukiyo-e Prints (1), #870.
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Nakamura Utaemon I (初代中村歌右衛門) (actor)
Soga brothers (曾我兄弟) (genre)