Shunshosai Hokuchō (春曙斎北頂) (artist )
Triptych of the play Sao no uta Kizugawa hakkei (Song of the boat pole: Eight views of the Kizu River - 棹歌木津川八景)
07/1829
30.5 in x 15.25 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Shunshosai Hokuchō ga
春曙斎北頂画
Publisher: Honya Seishichi
(Marks 123 - seal 25-527)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Tokyo Metropolitan Library - right panel only
Hankyu Culture Foundation - right panel
Hankyu Culture Foundation - center panel
Hankyu Culture Foundation - left panel
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden via Ritsumeikan University - right-hand panel only
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden via Ritsumeikan University - center panel only
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden via Ritsumeikan University - left-hand panel only
Cleveland Museum of Art - the full triptych
Philadelphia Museum of Art - the full triptych Left: Asao Gakujūrō (浅尾額十郎) as the ferryman Sanjūrō (渡シ守三十郎)
Center: Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Kizu Kansuke (木津勘助) and Nakayama Bunshichi III (中山文七) as Hayashi Sanzaemon (林三左衛門)
Right: Ichikawa Ebijūrō II (市川鰕十郎) as Horiguchi Manemon (堀口万右衛門)
From a performance in 7/1829 at the Kado Theater.
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Illustrated:
1) in color in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei, vol. 2, Osaka, 1998, No 198, page 69. The full triptych is shown.
2) in black and white in Andon 29, Spring, 1988, fig. 1, p. 86. The full triptych is illustrated here.
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
Ichikawa Ebijūrō II (二代目市川鰕十郎: from 11/1828 to 11/24/29) (actor)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Honya Seishichi (本屋清七) (publisher)
Arashi Rikan II (二代目嵐璃寛: 9/1828 - 6/1837) (actor)
Nakayama Bunshichi III (三代目目中山文七: 11/1804 to 4/1809 and again 11/1814 to 1850) (actor)
Asao Gakujūrō I (初代浅尾額十郎) (actor)