Satomi hakkenshi no uchi hitori

Description

Part of a colour woodblock diptych print of the kabuki actor Iwai Shijaku I as Inuzaka Keno Tanetomo, from the play Nanso Satomi hakkenden: Japan, Osaka, by Hokuei, 1833

Museum reference

A.1887.745.35.16

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Woodblock print, Diptych

Production information

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

Date

c. 1832 - 1835

Materials

Paper

Associations

Depicted: Inuzaka Keno Tanetomo
Depicted: Iwai Shijaku I, 1822 - 1844

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. 20

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.