• Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series <i>Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores</i> (<i>Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi</i> - 當世押絵羽子板)
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

Bandō Mitsugorō III (坂東三津五郎) as Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) from the series Great Performances: Contemporary Pressed-Cloth Battledores (Tōsei oshi-e hagoita atari kyōgen no uchi - 當世押絵羽子板)

Print

1822
9.75 in x 14.75 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: ōju Gototei Kunisada ga
(By special request... 應需五渡亭国貞画)
Publisher: Azumaya Daisuke
(Marks 025 - seal 06-001)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Waseda University
Ritsumeikan University
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Iwai Hanshiro from this series
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden) via Ritsumeikan University There are ten prints in this series. "Pressed-cloth portraits attached to battledores were sold as New Year souvenirs at temples and shrines. They appeared during the 18th century and survive today in a debased form in the souvenir stalls that surround all modern tourist sites in Japan. First employed as a graphic device by the Katsukawa-school, battledore portraits were revived by Toyokuni in 1817 in his guide to theatrical portraiture... which served as a model for Kunisada. An interesting legacy of Kunisada's presence in Osaka is a variation on this battledore set designed by the Osaka artists Jukōdō Yoshikuni (active 1813-32) and Saikōtei Shibakuni (active 1821-26), featuring local actors..."

Quoted from: Kunisada's World by Sebastian Izzard, p. 91.

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Robert Schaap wrote on page 65 in Kunisada: imaging, drama and beauty, Hotei Publishing, 2016:

"The ten documented designs in this set illustrate famous actors in celebrated roles that are not linked to recent performances. They are instead retrospective portraits similar to Kunisada's earlier set Great hit performers... The game of hagoita or 'battledores' was a popular pastime in the Edo period and beyond, and battledores with padded designs were known as oshi-e hagoita, part of the title of this set. Kunisada and his contemporary Kuniyoshi both produced battledore imagery, as did Kunisada's student Toyohara Kunichika (1855-1900). In his extensive chronicle, Morisada mankō, Kitagawa Morisada (1810-?) remarks on the popularity of oshi-e hagoita at this time: 'hagoita in Edo exclusively used paulownia wood... the backs are entirely given over to half-length portraits of actors. We also had oshi-e in Kyoto and Osaka from the time of my youth.' "

Note that Schaap gives the title of this series as 'Fashionable padded battledores'. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston calls them 'Present-day Collage Pictures for Battledores'.
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Chūshingura (忠臣蔵 - 47 rōnin) (genre)
Bandō Mitsugorō III (三代目坂東三津五郎: 11/1799 to 12/1831) (actor)
Azumaya Daisuke (東屋大助) (publisher)
Hayano Kanpei (早勘平) (role)