• Ichikawa Ebijūrō I (市川鰕十郎) as Koshina Danjō (越名弾正) and Nakayama Yoshio I (中山よしを) as Koshina's wife Irie (Koshina tsuma Irie -女房入江)
Ichikawa Ebijūrō I (市川鰕十郎) as Koshina Danjō (越名弾正) and Nakayama Yoshio I (中山よしを) as Koshina's wife Irie (Koshina tsuma Irie -女房入江)
Ichikawa Ebijūrō I (市川鰕十郎) as Koshina Danjō (越名弾正) and Nakayama Yoshio I (中山よしを) as Koshina's wife Irie (Koshina tsuma Irie -女房入江)
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Shunkōsai Hokushū (春好斎北洲) (artist ca 1808 – 1832)

Ichikawa Ebijūrō I (市川鰕十郎) as Koshina Danjō (越名弾正) and Nakayama Yoshio I (中山よしを) as Koshina's wife Irie (Koshina tsuma Irie -女房入江)

Print

05/09/1817
9.625 in x 14.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Hokushū ga (北洲画)
Publisher: Honya Seishichi
(Marks 123 - seal 25-527)
Hankyu Culture Foundation
Columbia University - bunraku link about Koshina Danjō This print commemorates a performance of the play Honchō Nijūshi-kō (本朝廿四孝) or Tale of 24 Dutiful Sons. These figures appear in the Kikyo Field scene (Kikyōgahara - 桔梗原). Also, there are three other prints in the Lyon Collection based on elements of the Honchō Nijūshi-kō: #778, a diptych by Yoshitaki; and #s 1115 and 1116, both by Kuniyoshi.

Notice the beautiful pattern of horses on the robe of Koshina Danjō.

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Illustrated:

1) in Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei, vol. 1, 1997, #71, p. 30.

2) in a full-page, color illustration in Osaka Prints by Dean J. Schwaab, p. 70. "This is one of a pair of fan-rom bust portraits executed by Hokushū for the final Utaemon III/Ebijūrō I performance before Utaemon's departure on tour to Edo.... Both prints were published by Honsei, which had begun publishing during the previous year. These may represent the earliest use of the ōban format for bust portraits." (Ibid., p. 71)

3) in color in Schätze der Kamigata: Japanische Farbholzschnitte aus Osaka 1780-1880, MNHA (Musée national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg), 2012, p. 207, #436. The text reads:

"Die Danjo Brüder, porträtiert im Uchiwa-Fächer, mit irhen Ehefrauen in Ogi-Fächerbildern, sind Nebenfiguren des complexeren Stückes über die Kämpfe zwischen dem Takeda- und de Nagano-Klan."

The Google translation reads:

"The Danjo brothers, portrayed in the Uchiwa fan, with their wives in the Ogi fan, are minor characters in the more complex play about the battles between the Takeda and de Nagano clans."
Nakayama Yoshio I (初代中山善雄: from 8/1804 to 1/1818) (actor)
Ichikawa Ebijūrō I (初代市川鰕十郎 9/1815 to 7/1827) (actor)
Honya Seishichi (本屋清七) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)