| | Stockno.: | 23-205 | Artist: | Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好北州 (active 1803-1832) | Description: | Actor Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) as Osono (おその 中村歌右衛門三代目) from the series Hits of a Lifetime (Issei ichidai atari kyōgen 一世一代当狂言).
Published by Akashidō in 1825/3.
From a set of five prints issued for the farewell performance of Shikan (who continued acting under another name).
Play: Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi 彦山権現誓助剣
Theater: Kado 角
| Signed: | Shunkōsai Hokushū ga plus seal reading Hokushū | Size: | Oban tate-e | Condition: | Fine impression, very good colour and condition. Slightly soiled, three small stains. Two pinholes in upper corners, and a brown stain in left top corner. Printed on thyick surimono quality paper, the fan in gauffrage. | Price: | Euro 1750 | Reference: | Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 94; Gerstle 2005, #235; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #164; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #242 | | | |
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