Satomi hakkenshi no uchi hitori

Description

Part of a colour woodblock diptych print of the kabuki actor Bandō Jutarō I as Inukai Kenpachi Nobumichi in the roof fight from the play Nanso Satomi hakkenden: Japan, Osaka, by Hokuei, 1833

Museum reference

A.1887.745.35.13

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print, Diptych

Production information

Hokuei, Artist
Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan, East Asia

Date

1833

Materials

Paper

Associations

Depicted: Inukai Kempachi Nobumichi
Depicted: Bandō Jutarō I, 1825 - 1840 (fl.)

Exhibitions

• Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints (04 Oct 2013 - 02 Feb 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Rosina Buckland, Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints (National Museums Scotland, 2013), no. 18

Discussed comprehensively in 持丸眞弓「春梅斎北英画「里見八犬子内一個」の独創性と特異性」 『浮世絵芸術』 167 (2014), pp. 39-54.