Description:
single panel of a vertical ōban triptych; yakusha-e
Label Text:
The actor's name is printed at top-right in the yellow cartouche, accompanied by the role written in the smaller red cartouche. At lower-right is the artist's signature, which reads "Ichiōsai Kunichika ga," ('picture by Ichiōsai Kunichika'), and is within a toshidama cartouche. At left of the signature are the mark of the publisher Yorozuya Zentarō — the character "Jū" placed within a right angle — and the combined date-aratame seal of the censor, which identifies a date of inspection as the ninth lunar month of 1862 (Bunkyū 2).
Onoe Baikō IVS is so called because he is not truly regarded as the fourth recipient of the name, having held it only briefly from 1859–1863. He is better known as Jitsukawa Enjaku I.
Another impression of this print is held in the collections of Waseda University, Tokyo, (acc no. 100-8443) with the source play identified as "The Sound of the Zither of Iwakura Sogen's Beloved" ('Iwakura Sogen renbo no tsumagoto'), a variation on a well-known story of the priest Iwakura Sogen and the beauitful Irokotohime, with whom he becomes obsessed.
An accompanying panel of the triptych is held by the Mead Art Museum (acc. no. AC 2005.251)
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