• Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Itō Sōta (伊東壮太) - this is the right-hand panel of a triptych - from the play <i>Hanano Saga Nekomata Hanashi</i> [花野嵯峨猫魔縞]
Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Itō Sōta (伊東壮太) - this is the right-hand panel of a triptych - from the play <i>Hanano Saga Nekomata Hanashi</i> [花野嵯峨猫魔縞]
Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Itō Sōta (伊東壮太) - this is the right-hand panel of a triptych - from the play <i>Hanano Saga Nekomata Hanashi</i> [花野嵯峨猫魔縞]
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Itō Sōta (伊東壮太) - this is the right-hand panel of a triptych - from the play Hanano Saga Nekomata Hanashi [花野嵯峨猫魔縞]

Print

09/1853
Signed: Toyokuni ga (豊国画)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi
Marks 595 - seal 04-007
Date: 6/1853
Censors: Fuku and Muramatsu
Ritsumeikan University
Waseda University
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - the whole triptych
Hankyu Culture Foundation
Princeton University Art Museum This print helps commemorate the play Hanano Saga Nekomata Hanashi (野嵯峨猫魔縞). "The most feared variety of demon-cat has a forked or double tail and is called nekomata, forked cat."

Quoted from: The Animal in Far Eastern Art: And Especially in the Art of the Japanese Netzsuke, with References to Chinese Origins, Traditions, Legends, and Art by T. Volker, p. 27.
Yamamotoya Heikichi (山本屋平吉) (publisher)
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図 - ghosts demons monsters and spirits) (genre)
Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII (八代目市川団十郎: 3/1832 - 6/8/1854) (actor)