Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) (artist 04/30/1839 – 06/09/1892)
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII in an Evening Shower Among Flowers (Hana no yūdachi - はなの夕立)
04/1862
8 in x 11.25 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed:Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga
一魁斎芳年画
Artist's seal: kiri
Publisher: Daikokuya Kichinosuke
(Marks 031 - seal 23-053)
Carver: Hori Chō
Date: 4/1862
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - the smaller crepe version
Minneapolis Institute of Art - the full triptych
Mead Art Museum, Amherst - Kuniyoshi's earlier version of a triptych of 3 women out in a summer rain This is from the crepe printing, a chirimengami-e (縮緬紙絵), of a triptych by Yoshitoshi. The print in the Lyon Collection is the right-hand panel and it represents Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (1844-1903). The group is "...set against a silhouetted background of the 'seven autumnal flowers' (aki no nanakusa). Their umbrellas are inscribed with the character dai from the name of he publisher Daikokuya. The actors names are not given, their identification based on their facial features and the patterns on their robes. This work may have been inspired by a similar, albeit non-Kabuki related, triptych by Yoshitoshi's teacher Utagawa Kuniyoshi entitled Sudden rain in midsummer (Shochū no yūdachi) and dated to 1849-51."
Quoted from: Yoshitoshi: Masterpieces from the Ed Freis Collection, p. 61. The whole triptych is illustrated in color.
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (十三代目市村羽左衛門: 1/1851 to 1862) (actor)
Daikokuya Kichinosuke (大黒屋吉之助) (publisher)
Katada Chōjirō (片田長次郎) (carver)