Tsuruya Kōkei (弦屋光溪) (artist 1946)
Sawamura Sōjūrō IX (より九世澤村宗十郎) as the ferry woman Oshizu (渡し守おしづ)
09/1994
Japanese woodblock print
Artist Seal: A Work by Kōkei (Kōkei saku 光 溪 作 )
Number 47 (四十七 of 90 impressions [(Kujū shina 九十品])
Portland Art Museum
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Hōkaibō (法界坊) scene from Sumidagawa gonichi no omokage (Duplicate countenance at the Sumida River: 歌舞伎座「隅田川続俤) at the Kabuki- za, Tokyo; Series: Daijū ki ōkubi-e shirizu sono san (Series 10 largebust portraits, Design 3: 第十期大首絵シリーズの3)
Woodblock made from Magnolia obovata; printed on Tosa Ganpi paper (made in Kochi prefecture); Seal = style no. 36; this is Kōkei’s 149th print design; no. 3 from the series Bust Portraits X (第十期大首絵シリーズ); the play was performed 7/1994.
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Another copy of this print is shown at Kabuki21 in the section on Sawamura Sōjūrō IX.
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A Sawamura family crest, the maru ni i-no-ji (丸に「い」の字 with the character い within a circle), can be seen on the actor's left sleeve, on our right.
self-printed (sōsaku hanga - 創作版画) (genre)
Sawamura Sōjūrō IX (九代目澤村宗十郎) (actor)