Gigadō Ashiyuki (戯画堂芦ゆき) (artist )
Nakamura Matsue III (中村松江) as the daughter or musume Karaori (娘綾織) on the right, Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Mashiba Hisatsugu (真柴久次) in the center, Nakamura Utaemon III (中村歌右衛門) as Ishida no Tsubone (石田ノ局) and Nakamura Umesuke I (中村梅助) as Mashiba Hisaaki (真柴久秋) on the left from the play 'Snow, Moon, Flowers in the Pleasure Quarter' (Keisei Setsugekka [けいせい雪月花])
01/1830
31.9 in x 15.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Gigadō Ashiyuki ga (戯画堂芦ゆき画)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Hankyu Culture Foundation - right panel
Hankyu Culture Foundation - center panel
Hankyu Culture Foundation - left panel
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden) via Ritsumeikan University - right-hand panel
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden) via Ritsumeikan University - center panel
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden) via Ritsumeikan University - left-hand panel
Waseda University - left-hand panel only There are two other compositions in the Lyon Collection based on this play. All are Osaka prints. There is a diptych by two artists, Shigeharu and Kunihiro, working in collaboration (#415) and a single print by Hokushū (#568).
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Illustrated in color in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints) Volume 1, Ikeda Bunko Library, Osaka 1997, no. 290, p. 102.
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Nakamura Matsue III (三代目中村松江) (actor)
Arashi Rikan II (二代目嵐璃寛: 9/1828 - 6/1837) (actor)
Nakamura Utaemon III (三代目中村歌右衛門) (actor)
Nakamura Umesuke I (初代中村梅助: from 1/1828 to 1/1831) (actor)