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- Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Lady Iwafuji and Segawa Kikunojō V as Ohatsu
Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Lady Iwafuji and Segawa Kikunojō V as Ohatsu
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| Title | Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Lady Iwafuji and Segawa Kikunojō V as Ohatsu Tsubone Iwafuji Ichikawa Danjūrō Ohatsu Segawa Kikunojō 局岩藤 市川團十郎 おはつ 瀬川菊之 |
| Date | 1831 |
| Play | Botan ni chō hatsu ga fumibako 牡丹蝶初筐 |
| Theatre | Kawarasaki 河原崎 |
| Publisher | Kawaguchiya Shōzō (Shōeidō) 川口屋正蔵 (正栄堂) |
| City | Edo |
| Signature | Gototei Kunisada ga 五渡亭国貞画 |
| Censorship seal(s) | kiwame 極 |
| Publisher’s seal(s) | Kawa-Shō 川正 |
| Width | 25,9 cm (R), 25,8 cm (M) |
| Height | 38,2 cm |
| Object number | SH2018-DM-047 |
| Credit Line | Collection Japan Museum SieboldHuis, gift of Muck and Mieke Douma, 2018 |
Description
The inscription above the actors contains the dialogue of this particular scene.
A reissue of this same design exists, also published by Kawaguchiya Shōzō, in which the two actors are replaced by Bandō Mitsugorō (Iwafuji) and Nakamura Shikan (Ohatsu). They played the roles some ten years later in the play Sakura-doki onna gyōretsu. In this later edition the faces and names, including those given in the dialogue, are changed. Remarkably, in this later edition Kunisada's signature is replaced by that of his fellow Utagawa school member Kuniyoshi (1798-1861).
Kuniyoshi also created a triptych of this play in 1832 for Kawaguchiya's publishing firm Shōeidō.
