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Onoe Kikugorō descended [to Edo, as] the Lantern Ghost [Oiwa], acclaimed in the Three Metropolises

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Title Onoe Kikugorō descended [to Edo, as] the Lantern Ghost [Oiwa], acclaimed in the Three Metropolises Sanganotsu gohyōban no chōchin yūrei – kudari – Onoe Kikugorō 三ヶの津御評判のちやうちんのゆうれゐ 下り 尾上菊五郎
Date 1831
Play Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan 東海道四谷怪談
Theatre Ichimura 市村
Publisher Moritaya Hanzō 森田屋半蔵
City Edo
Signature Gototei Kunisada ga 五渡亭国貞画 (afgesneden)
Censorship seal(s) kiwame 極
Publisher’s seal(s) Tama 玉 (afgesneden)
Inscription

[in lantern]

当秋狂言大入叶 俗名お岩大評判

Tōshū kyōgen ōiri kanau zokumyō Oiwa daihyōban

A kyōgen (theatre play) that sold out this autumn: the sensation known as Oiwa

Width 24,8 cm
Height 34,8 cm
Object number SH2018-DM-027
Credit Line Collection Japan Museum SieboldHuis, gift of Muck and Mieke Douma, 2018

Description

Left sheet of a diptych. The missing half depicts Seki Sanjūrō II as Kamiya Niemon.