Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Utagawa Kunihisa II. Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Tasogare / Fan print, 1863.
Artist (character): Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞] a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865).
Artist (landscape): Utagawa Kunihisa II [歌川国久] (Japanese, 1832 – 1981), a.k.a. Katsuda Hisatarō, Ichiunsai, Ritchōrō, Toyonobu, Yōryūsai, Yōsai.
Block carver: Matsushima Masakichi (Japanese, fl. c. 1847-65); seal: [松嶋彫政] – Matsushima Hori Masa (Frieze, 2009: 142)
Publisher: Iseya Magobei [伊勢屋孫兵衛] (Japanese, fl. c. 1794 – 1868).
Signed: By the brush of Toyokuni at the age of 78 [七十八歳豊国筆] (Nanajūhachi-sai Toyokuni hitsu) – in a red toshidama cartouche (left).
Signed: Landscape by Kunihisa [景色 国久画] (Keshiki Kunihisa ga) (right).
Actor: Nakamura Shikan IV [中村芝翫] (Japanese, 1831 – 1899); other names: Nakamura Fukusuke I, Nakamura Masanosuke I, Nakamura Komasaburō, Nakamura Tamatarō I.
Combined date seal and kiwame censor seal: [亥極] – Bunkyū 3 (1863)
Tasogare (literally, twilight] [たそがれ] is a character in the novel Rustic Genji and a role in various kabuki plays. Fake Murasaki’s Rustic Genji [偐紫田舎源氏] (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji) is a literary parody written by Ryutei Tanehiko [柳亭種彦] (Japanese, 1783 – 1842).
According to Horst Graebner, this must be a mitate print because there was no known performance of this play in 1863.
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| Type / Purpose | |
| Period | 19 AD, Bunkyū era [文久], Edo Period (1603 – 1868), Mid-19th century |
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| Subject | Actor print, Fake Murasaki’s Rustic Genji [偐紫田舎源氏] (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji), Kabuki, Kabuki actor, Kabuki actors, Kabuki theater, Nakamura Shikan IV [中村芝寛] (Japanese, 1831 – 1899), Tasogare [たそがれ], The Tale of Genji [源氏物語] (Genji monogatari) |
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| Artist | Utagawa Kunihisa II [歌川国久] (Japanese, 1832 – 1891), Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞] a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865) |
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| Signature | Artist's seal, Block carver signature, Combined date seal and kiwame censor seal, Publisher's seal |
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