Japanese Print "Attacked by Indians - Kabuki goes to America" by Adachi Ginko
Artist:Adachi Ginko
Title:Attacked by Indians - Kabuki goes to America
Date:1879.
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Description:
The series of "Hyoryu kidan Seiyo Kabuki". (The Strange Story about Being Adrift on the Sea to Europe) Two American Indians; Suibudo (Left: played by Nakamura Tsuruzo) and Kakishibu (right: Ichikawa Dan'emon) attack Shimizu Mihozo (in black suit: Ichikawa Danjuro) and Kiyomi's daughter, Wakaba (Sawamura Hyakunosuke) on the railroad. Mihozo was a Japanese fisherman who had shipwrecked and drifted to Europe in this hilarious kabuki play.
