Japanese Print "Shirai Gonpachi Iwai Tojaku, Chobei Matsumoro Kosiro 白井権八 岩井杜若, 長兵衛 松本幸四郎" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Japanese Print "Shirai Gonpachi Iwai Tojaku, Chobei Matsumoro Kosiro 白井権八 岩井杜若, 長兵衛 松本幸四郎" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 歌川国芳 (Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳))

Artist:Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Title:Shirai Gonpachi Iwai Tojaku, Chobei Matsumoro Kosiro 白井権八 岩井杜若, 長兵衛 松本幸四郎

Date:1833 (Tenpo 4)

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Colour woodblock print, an oban diptych. The kabuki actors Iwai Tojaku I (right sheet) as Shirai Gonpachi, standing with swords, and Matsumoto Koshiro V (left sheet) as Chobei; in the ‘Suzugamori’ scene from the play ‘Mitsuicho gozonji no edozome’ (三銀杏御存地染) performed at the Nakamura theatre in the 5th month of 1833.

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