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  • Nakamura Fukusuke I 中村福助 as both a boatman (<i>sendō</i> - 船頭) and a processional standard-bearer (<i>gyōretsu yakko</i> - 行れつ奴), a series related to <i>Meiga zukushi no uchi Shosagoto</i> (名画尽の内 所作事 - 'Dances based on famous paintings')
Nakamura Fukusuke I 中村福助 as both a boatman (<i>sendō</i> - 船頭) and a processional standard-bearer (<i>gyōretsu yakko</i> - 行れつ奴), a series related to <i>Meiga zukushi no uchi Shosagoto</i> (名画尽の内 所作事 - 'Dances based on famous paintings')
Nakamura Fukusuke I 中村福助 as both a boatman (<i>sendō</i> - 船頭) and a processional standard-bearer (<i>gyōretsu yakko</i> - 行れつ奴), a series related to <i>Meiga zukushi no uchi Shosagoto</i> (名画尽の内 所作事 - 'Dances based on famous paintings')
Nakamura Fukusuke I 中村福助 as both a boatman (<i>sendō</i> - 船頭) and a processional standard-bearer (<i>gyōretsu yakko</i> - 行れつ奴), a series related to <i>Meiga zukushi no uchi Shosagoto</i> (名画尽の内 所作事 - 'Dances based on famous paintings')
Nakamura Fukusuke I 中村福助 as both a boatman (<i>sendō</i> - 船頭) and a processional standard-bearer (<i>gyōretsu yakko</i> - 行れつ奴), a series related to <i>Meiga zukushi no uchi Shosagoto</i> (名画尽の内 所作事 - 'Dances based on famous paintings')
Nakamura Fukusuke I 中村福助 as both a boatman (<i>sendō</i> - 船頭) and a processional standard-bearer (<i>gyōretsu yakko</i> - 行れつ奴), a series related to <i>Meiga zukushi no uchi Shosagoto</i> (名画尽の内 所作事 - 'Dances based on famous paintings')
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

Nakamura Fukusuke I 中村福助 as both a boatman (sendō - 船頭) and a processional standard-bearer (gyōretsu yakko - 行れつ奴), a series related to Meiga zukushi no uchi Shosagoto (名画尽の内 所作事 - 'Dances based on famous paintings')

Print

10/1857
9.75 in x 14.125 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Toyokuni ga (豊国画)
Publisher: Hayashiya Shōgorō
(Marks 106 - seal 11-002 variant)
Date: 10/1857
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Waseda University
Finnish National Museum The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston says that this print shows a part of the dance performance of the Funa Torite Megumi no Ōtsu-e (採筆恵の大津絵). This accompanied the play Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) at the Morita theater.

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The yakko carrying a staff adorned with bird feathers at the top was referred to as the yari mochi yakko (槍持奴). They were placed at the front of daimyo (大名) processions, especially on their journeys to or from Edo during the Tokugawa period. His makeup and hairstyle with a kamahige (鎌髭) or a scythe beard would indicate that he represents the famous strongman Asahina (朝比奈).

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William Edmunds wrote in 1934 on page 706 in Pointers and clues to the subjects of Chinese and Japanese art : as shown in drawings, prints, carvings and the decoration of porcelain and lacquer, with brief notices of the related subjects: "Yakko: a boy runner or male servant who carries things in a Daimyo's procession."
Hayashiya Shōgorō (林屋庄五郎) (publisher)
Nakamura Fukusuke I (初代中村福助: 3/1839 to 6/1860) (actor)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)