• Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (市村羽左衛門) as Sashichi of Kiyotaki (<i>Kiyotaki no Sashichi</i> - 清滝の佐七) from the series <i>A Modern Shuihuzhuan</i> (<i>Kinsei Suikoden</i> - 近世水滸伝)
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (市村羽左衛門) as Sashichi of Kiyotaki (<i>Kiyotaki no Sashichi</i> - 清滝の佐七) from the series <i>A Modern Shuihuzhuan</i> (<i>Kinsei Suikoden</i> - 近世水滸伝)
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (市村羽左衛門) as Sashichi of Kiyotaki (<i>Kiyotaki no Sashichi</i> - 清滝の佐七) from the series <i>A Modern Shuihuzhuan</i> (<i>Kinsei Suikoden</i> - 近世水滸伝)
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (市村羽左衛門) as Sashichi of Kiyotaki (<i>Kiyotaki no Sashichi</i> - 清滝の佐七) from the series <i>A Modern Shuihuzhuan</i> (<i>Kinsei Suikoden</i> - 近世水滸伝)
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (市村羽左衛門) as Sashichi of Kiyotaki (<i>Kiyotaki no Sashichi</i> - 清滝の佐七) from the series <i>A Modern Shuihuzhuan</i> (<i>Kinsei Suikoden</i> - 近世水滸伝)
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (市村羽左衛門) as Sashichi of Kiyotaki (Kiyotaki no Sashichi - 清滝の佐七) from the series A Modern Shuihuzhuan (Kinsei Suikoden - 近世水滸伝)

Print

07/1862
9.6 in x 14.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Kiō Toyokuni ga
(old man Toyokuni drew this picture - 喜翁豊国画)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi
(Marks 145 - seal 21-059)
Carver: Horikō Kokin (彫工小金)
Censor & date seal: aratame 7/1862
Text: Kanagaki Robun
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Waseda University
Ritsumeikan University
Tokyo Metropolitan Library
Funabashi City Library
National Institute of Japanese Literature "In the early 1860s Kunisada designed a series of 36 popular actor prints, posing as contemporary Suikoden heroes. Eleven of them were decorated with spectacular tattoos. The biographical details given in the upper part of the prints are by the writer Kanagaki Robun."

Quoted from: the catalogue section of Andon 87, the edition on Japanese tattooing, December, 2009, p. 79.

Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文: 1829-94).

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The man's tattoo shows an eagle among pine trees. Over his left shoulder is what appears to be tenugui or hand towel - or perhaps it is the upper part of his robe - decorated with a black carp leaping up the roiling waters of a waterfall.

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There is another copy of the right-hand panel in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden (RV-1455-46).
Iseya Kanekichi (伊勢屋兼吉) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (十三代目市村羽左衛門: 1/1851 to 1862) (actor)
Tattoo (genre)
Suikoden (水滸傳) (genre)
Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文) (author)