Artist: Shunbaisai Hokuei (春梅斎北英)
Print: Arashi Rikan II (嵐璃寛) as Karahashi Sakujūrō (唐橋作十郎) - right-hand panel of a diptych
Signed: Shunkōsai Hokuei ga
春江斎北英画
Publisher: Honya Seishichi (Marks 123 - seal 25-527)
Related links: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (complete diptych); National Museums Scotland - right panel only; Walters Art Museum - this panel; Walters Art Museum - left panel; National Museums of Scotland - left panel - fresh coloring; Hankyu Culture Foundation;
This is the right-hand panel of a diptych. It commemorates a performance of the play Chūkō homare no futamichi (忠孝誉二街) at the Kadoza in 1831/9. It had been produced on stage as early as 1792.
The struggle in this print appears to be taking place in a temple in front of a huge statue of Emma-O, the chief judge of Hell.
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Illustrated in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints), vol. 2, Ikeda Bunko Library, Osaka, 1998, no. 275.
Related entities
Shunbaisai Hokuei (春梅斎北英) (artist)Honya Seishichi (本屋清七) (publisher)
Arashi Rikan II (二代目嵐璃寛) (actor)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
