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  • Ichikawa Ebijūrō I [市川鰕十良] as Mokuemon [杢右衛門] and Ichikawa Danzō V [五代市川団蔵] as Yashichi [弥七] in the <em>Kanadehon Chūshingura</em> ['Copybook of the Treasury of Loyal Retainers': 仮名手本忠臣蔵] - left panel of a diptych
Ichikawa Ebijūrō I [市川鰕十良] as Mokuemon [杢右衛門] and Ichikawa Danzō V [五代市川団蔵] as Yashichi [弥七] in the <em>Kanadehon Chūshingura</em> ['Copybook of the Treasury of Loyal Retainers': 仮名手本忠臣蔵] - left panel of a diptych
Ichikawa Ebijūrō I [市川鰕十良] as Mokuemon [杢右衛門] and Ichikawa Danzō V [五代市川団蔵] as Yashichi [弥七] in the <em>Kanadehon Chūshingura</em> ['Copybook of the Treasury of Loyal Retainers': 仮名手本忠臣蔵] - left panel of a diptych
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Shunkōsai Hokushū (春好斎北洲) (artist ca 1808 – 1832)

Ichikawa Ebijūrō I [市川鰕十良] as Mokuemon [杢右衛門] and Ichikawa Danzō V [五代市川団蔵] as Yashichi [弥七] in the Kanadehon Chūshingura ['Copybook of the Treasury of Loyal Retainers': 仮名手本忠臣蔵] - left panel of a diptych

Print

03/1824
Signed: Shunkōsai Hokushū
春好斎北洲
Artist's seal: Hokushū
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - with poems
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - without poems
Hankyu Cultural Foundation
Philadelphia Museum of Art - a triptych with the same characters
Victoria and Albert Museum Mokuemon is the figure which is kneeling. He is sometimes known as 'uekiya' (植木屋) or 'the gardener' in some of the related plays. If you click on this image and enlarge it you will see in the darker blue part of his costume large birds, possibly stylized sparrows, as seen from above flying among bamboo plants.

The right-hand missing panel of this diptych, which is missing here, shows Otaka (おたか) who is the concubine of the villain Kō no Moronao, but her true love is Yashichi. Eventually Otaka kills herself out of shame while riding in a palanquin or kago.

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This image commemorates a performance at the Kado Theater in 7/1824.

This is from the earlier, privately printed edition - a later, commercial edition, was published without the poems. Instead the names of the actors were prominently displayed.

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Illustrated in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints), vol. 1, Ikeda Bunko Library, Osaka 1997, no. 153.
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Tenmaya Kihei (天満屋喜兵衛) (publisher)
Chūshingura (忠臣蔵 - 47 Rōnin) (genre)
Ichikawa Danzō V (五代目市川団蔵: 4/1819 to 6/1845) (actor)
Ichikawa Ebijūrō I (初代市川鰕十郎 9/1815 to 7/1827) (actor)