Condition:
Good colours and saturation. Any remarkable stain, wrinkles nor creases. A fixing on the upper-left part (just right above the Yellow cartouche and beside the red cartouche)
The Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan IV (四代目中村芝翫) in the role of Nangō Rikimaru (南郷力丸).
A print depicting the Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan IV playing the role of Nangō Rikimaru, from the famous kabuki play Aoto Zōshi Hana no Nishikie written by Kawatake Mokuami and performed
for the first time in March 1862 at the Ichimura Za of Edo.
The play is widely known under different names as Benten Kozō, which refers to the main character of the play or as Shiranami Gonin Otoko ("Five men of the white waves”, were white waves is a term used to indicate thieves).
The play took as pivotal characters a band of five thieves that actually really existed in Osaka during the Edo period.
Nangō Rikimaru appears as Benten Kozō`s retainer since the first act of the play, before the gathering of the band of five.
Condition:
Good colours and saturation. Any remarkable stain, wrinkles nor creases. A fixing on the upper-left part (just right above the Yellow cartouche and beside the red cartouche)
| Price | USD$ 114.00 |
|---|---|
| Series | Aoto Zōshi Hana no Nishikie (青砥稿花紅彩画). |
| Author | Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) here signed as here as Kiō (old with happiness) Toyokuni (喜翁豊国). |
| Size | Ōban (大判). |
| Publisher | Iseya Kanekichi (伊勢屋兼吉). |
| Number | / |
| Genre | Musha-e (武者絵), Edo-e (江戸絵). |
| Period | C. 1862. |
| Trimmed | Yes |
| Backed | No |
| Code | UKSI01010 |