Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Inuzuka Shino (犬塚信乃) on the right and Seki Sanjūrō II (關三十郎) as Inuzuka Bansaku (犬塚伴作) from the play <i>Hana no ani tsubomi no yatsufusa</i> (花魁莟八総 - '8 Buds of the Plum Blossoms')
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Shunbaisai Hokuei (春梅斎北英) (artist )

Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Inuzuka Shino (犬塚信乃) on the right and Seki Sanjūrō II (關三十郎) as Inuzuka Bansaku (犬塚伴作) from the play Hana no ani tsubomi no yatsufusa (花魁莟八総 - '8 Buds of the Plum Blossoms')

Print

01/1836
20.5 in x 15 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
Signed: Shunbaisai Hokuei ga
春梅斎北英画
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei
(Marks 536 - seal 21-193)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Hankyu Culture Foundation - right panel
Hankyu Culture Foundation - left panel
Lyon Collection - an 1852 Kuniyoshi print with Inuzuka Shino in it
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - an 1857 diptych by Kunikazu of this same scene - the figure of Inuzuka Shino is wearing a close variation of the same costume
Lyon Collection - another Hokuei print illustrating a scene from this same play
Tateyama City Museum (via Cultural Heritage Online) The play represented in this print was first performed in 1836. Written by Nishizawa Ippō (西沢一鳳: 1802-52) it was based on the earlier work of Takizawa Bakin (1767-1848) and his Nansō Satomi hakkenden or 'Satomi and the Eight Dogs' published between 1814-42.

The inu of the name of this character, Inuzuka, means 'dog'.

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Illustrated in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata Yakusha-e Shusei, (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints) volume 2, Ikeda Bunko Library, Osaka, 1998, page 123, no. 377.

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The figure of Arashi Rikan II is wearing a robe decorated with the 'tachibana' (橘) or mandarin orange crest of his family.
Arashi Rikan II (二代目嵐璃寛: 9/1828 - 6/1837) (actor)
Tenmaya Kihei (天満屋喜兵衛) (publisher)
Seki Sanjūrō II (二代目関三十郎: 11/1807-2/1839) (actor)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
Hakkenden (The Eight Dog Heroes - 八犬伝) (genre)
Kyokutei Bakin (曲亭馬琴) (author)