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Ichikawa Kobunji I [as] Shōya (“Village Head”) Mokubei (R) and Sawamura Tosshō II [as] Ashikaga Sanshichirō Harutaka (L)

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Title Ichikawa Kobunji I [as] Shōya (“Village Head”) Mokubei (R) and Sawamura Tosshō II [as] Ashikaga Sanshichirō Harutaka (L) Shōya Mokubei Ichikawa Kobunji -- Ashikaga Sanshichirō Harutaka Sawamura Tosshō 庄屋杢兵御 市川小文治 足利三七郎春高 沢村訥升
Date 3/1864
Play Kinoene Soga daikoku bashira
Theatre Morita-za 森田座
Publisher Hiranoya Shinzō (Aikindō) 平野屋新蔵 (愛錦堂)
Woodcarver Ōta Tashichi / Ōta Komakichi 大田多七
City Edo
Signature Toyokuni ga 豊国画
Censorship seal(s) aratame, Rat 3 改子三
Publisher’s seal(s) Yorozuchō Hiranoya 万丁 ひらのや
Blockcutter’s (and/or) printer’s) seal(s) hori Ōta Tashichi 彫太田多七
Inscription

(in left margin)

文久四甲子年春 守田座 興行 大入大評判

Bunkyū yon kinoene nen haru Morita-za kōgyō ōiri daihyōban

Bunkyū 4, spring of the year of the Rat (Wood), a performance in the Morita Theatre, a large audience and a great sensation

Width 24,5 cm
Height 36,1 cm
Object number SH2018-DM-005
Credit Line Collection Japan Museum SieboldHuis, gift of Muck and Mieke Douma, 2018