Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周) (artist 1835 – 1900)

Onoe Kikugorō V as the ghost Seigen (清玄) and Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Orikoto-hime (折琴姫) from the series One Hundred Roles of Baikō (Baikō hyakushu no uchi - 梅幸百種之内)

Print

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Date:1893
Inscription:Signed: Toyohara Kunichika hitsu
豊原国周筆
Artist's seal: toshidama
Carver: Shodai Hori Ei rokujūichi okina
Links Waseda University
Tokyo Metropolitan Library
Hankyu Culture Foundation
Keio University
Lyon Collection - another print from this series: Yamamoto Kansuke Description:Hanging behind the figure of the ghost of Seigen is a jizaikagi (自在鉤) or pot hook contraption used to hold a pot or kettle over a fire.

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The publishers of this print are Fukuda Kumajirō and Gusokuya Kahei.

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There is another copy of this print in the collection of the Machida City Museum.

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Illustrated:

1) in black and white in a book review in Andon 66, July, 2000, fig. 7, p. 27.

2) in color in Time Present and Time Past: Images of a Forgotten Master: Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), Amy Reigle Newland, Hotei Publishing, 1999, pl. 107, p. 131.

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There is one other print from this series in the Lyon Collection. (See #1416)
Related entities Fukuda Kumajirō (福田熊次郎) (publisher)
Gusokuya Kahei (具足屋嘉兵衛) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Meiji era (明治時代: 1868-1912) (genre)
Onoe Kikugorō V (五代目尾上菊五郎: 8/1868 to 2/1903) (actor)
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (四代目中村福助: 5/1881 to 4/1901) (actor)

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