Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Ishikawa Toyonobu (1711-1785) | The actors Nakamura Shichisaburo II and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I | Edo period, 18th century
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Ishikawa Toyonobu (1711-1785)
The actors Nakamura Shichisaburo II and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I
Edo period, 18th century
woodblock print, benizuri-e, signed Tanjodo Ishikawa Shuha Toyonobu zu (Pictured by Tanjodo Ishikawa Shuha Toyonobu), artist's seals Ishikawa Uji and Toyonobu, published by Urokogataya Magobei, 1756
Vertical o-oban: 37.1 x 24.9 cm., 14⅝ x 9⅞ in.
Werner Schindler (1905-1986)
Kondo Eiko, Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints from the Schindler Collection, exh. cat., (Tokyo, 1986), no. 14, p. 26.
Matsuya Ginza Department Store, Tokyo, 4 - 16 October 1985
Okayama Takashimaya Department Store, Okayama, 24 October - 5 November 1985
Marui Imai Department Store, Sapporo, 28 November - 3 December 1985
Umeda Daimaru Department Store, Osaka, 15 - 27 January 1986
The two actors of the kabuki stage walk side by side, identifiable by the large crests (mon) emblazoned on their outer robes. Namakura Shichisaburo II (1703-1774) wears a red kimono decorated with wild mandarin flower crest (tachibana mon) and plovers in flight among waves; his inner robe with stylised wood sorrel leaves (katabami). Sanogawa Ichimatsu (1722–1762) carries a portable lantern (chochin) with a roundel containing tied cotton (kawari yui wata mon), his obi sash displaying his eponymous Ichimatsu moyo chequered design and robe with maru ni do no ji mon [encircled 'do' character crest].
For another impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 21.6272, go to:
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