Totoya Hokkei (魚屋北渓) (artist 1780 – 1850)
Ogino Kinshi I (荻野錦子) as Kohagi, actually Atsumori (小はぎ実はあつもり) in disguise - this is the left panel of a diptych
05/16/1818
9.75 in x 14.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
Signature: Shunyōsai Hokkei sha (春陽斎北敬写)
Publisher: Shioya Chōbei
(Marks 475 - seal 25-092)
Lyon Collection - Hokuei diptych with Atsumori dressed as Kohagi
Hankyu Culture Foundation
Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel
Ritsumeikan University - in black and white - the full diptych This figure represents Atsumori disguised as Kohagi who takes refuge in a fan shop. The right panel of this diptych representing Arashi Kichisaburō II as Kumagae Jirō is by Hokushū. It is meant to commemorate a performance of the play Suma no Miyako Genpei Tsutsuji (須磨都源平躑躅).
The lower lip of this figure is printed green to simulate the use of sasabeni (笹紅).
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Illustrated with the other panel in color in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints) Volume 1, Ikeda Bunko Library, Osaka 1997, no. 72.
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Shioya Chōbei (塩屋長兵衛) (publisher)
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
Ogino Kinshi I (初代荻野錦子: until 10/1819) (actor)