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The actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I (延若) with a poem card
The actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I (延若) with a poem card
The actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I (延若) with a poem card
The actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I (延若) with a poem card
The actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I (延若) with a poem card
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Utagawa Hirosada (歌川広貞: 1810-1864) (artist 1810 – 1864)

The actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I (延若) with a poem card

Print

ca 1847
7 in x 10 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed in black in the upper right: Hirosada
This signature is barely visible even after the image has been enlarged.
The poem card appears to bear the signature 延若 "Enjaku." The actor Jitsukawa Enjaku I 実川延若 or 實川延若 held this name from the 3rd lunar month of 1863 to September 1885. Hirosada died in 1864, so it's possible this is an 1863 or 64 design? Or some other actor named Enjaku? The actor's mon is an eight-twisted cord encircling a stylized EN (see similar Enjaku II mon at kabuki21.com/tawaramachi.php

There are two similar prints in an album in the Rijksmuseum. They are illustrated in color in an article in Andon 98, December 2014, 64. The author of the article is Hendrick Lühl. Those prints are said to come from the play Keisei Yamoto zoshí.
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (author)
ōkubi-e (大首絵) (author)
Jitsukawa Enjaku I (初代実川延若: from 3/1863 to September 1885) (actor)