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Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Yakko no Koman (奴の小まん) standing and Bandō Hikosaburō IV (坂東彦三郎) as Hanjimono Kihei (はんじ判喜兵衛) in <i>Contest of Appearances, Quarrel at the Harbor</i> [<i>Sugata kuabe deiri no minato</i> 容競出入湊]
Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Yakko no Koman (奴の小まん) standing and Bandō Hikosaburō IV (坂東彦三郎) as Hanjimono Kihei (はんじ判喜兵衛) in <i>Contest of Appearances, Quarrel at the Harbor</i> [<i>Sugata kuabe deiri no minato</i> 容競出入湊]
Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Yakko no Koman (奴の小まん) standing and Bandō Hikosaburō IV (坂東彦三郎) as Hanjimono Kihei (はんじ判喜兵衛) in <i>Contest of Appearances, Quarrel at the Harbor</i> [<i>Sugata kuabe deiri no minato</i> 容競出入湊]
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Shunbaisai Hokuei (春梅斎北英) (artist )

Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Yakko no Koman (奴の小まん) standing and Bandō Hikosaburō IV (坂東彦三郎) as Hanjimono Kihei (はんじ判喜兵衛) in Contest of Appearances, Quarrel at the Harbor [Sugata kuabe deiri no minato 容競出入湊]

Print

02/16/1834
10.3 in x 15 in (Overall dimensions) color woodblock print
Signed: Shunbaisai Hokuei ga
(春梅斉北英画)
Artist's seal in red
Publisher: Honya Seishichi (Marks 123 - seal 25-527)
Tokyo Metropolitan Library - another Hokuei of the same actor in the same role
Christie's - a painting on silk of this same motif
Hankyu Culture Foundation
Waseda University Library - Yakko no Komon by Tanehiko (click on the volume to see the rest of the yomihon)
University of Michigan
Museum of Oriental Art, Venice (via Ritsumeikan University)
Victoria and Albert Museum The role of Yakko no Komon was made popular in a yomihon by Ryūtei Tanehiko first published in 1807. She is an onnadate (女伊達) or woman who champions the underdog, a female Robin Hood.

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This print is said to commemorate a performance of Sugatakurabe Kurabe Deiri no Minato (容競出入湊). It was staged at the Naka Theater in Osaka in 2/1834.

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This role of an onnagata holding a shakuhachi was clearly popular with Hokuei. Not only is there another but different print, a deluxe edition, of this figure that he produced at the same time as this print in the Lyon Collection, but there was also painting on silk by him which sold at Christie's on October 27, 1998.

It is curious that the onnagata is holding a black and white stripped shakuhachi that is similar to the rough fabric of her black and white obi.

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Illustrated in:

1) in color in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints), vol. 2, Osaka, 1998, No 328.

2) in color in a small reproduction in Hokuei: Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints by John Fiorillo, Ludion, 2024, cat. 154, page 178.

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There is another copy of this print at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Honya Seishichi (本屋清七) (publisher)
Arashi Rikan II (二代目嵐璃寛: 9/1828 - 6/1837) (actor)
Bandō Hikosaburō IV (四代目坂東彦三郎: 11/1816 to 2/1856) (actor)