• Arashi Koroku IV (あらし小六) as Omiwa [おみわ] at the base of a flight of stairs - probably the left-hand panel of a diptych from the play <i>Imoseyama Onna Teikin</i>[妹背山婦女庭訓 - <i>Mount Imo and Mount Se:An Exemplary Tale of Womanly</i>]
Arashi Koroku IV (あらし小六) as Omiwa [おみわ] at the base of a flight of stairs - probably the left-hand panel of a diptych from the play <i>Imoseyama Onna Teikin</i>[妹背山婦女庭訓 - <i>Mount Imo and Mount Se:An Exemplary Tale of Womanly</i>]
Arashi Koroku IV (あらし小六) as Omiwa [おみわ] at the base of a flight of stairs - probably the left-hand panel of a diptych from the play <i>Imoseyama Onna Teikin</i>[妹背山婦女庭訓 - <i>Mount Imo and Mount Se:An Exemplary Tale of Womanly</i>]

Jukōdō Yoshikuni (寿好堂よし国) (artist )

Arashi Koroku IV (あらし小六) as Omiwa [おみわ] at the base of a flight of stairs - probably the left-hand panel of a diptych from the play Imoseyama Onna Teikin[妹背山婦女庭訓 - Mount Imo and Mount Se:An Exemplary Tale of Womanly]

Print


ca 1818
9.5 in x 13.625 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Yoshikuni (よし国)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei
(The top of the seal is visible in the lower right corner.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - a Kunisada print from 1818 of a different actor, but in the same scene
Waseda University - a Toyokuni I print also from 1818 - similar scene, but with the spool that shows up in the Hokushū prints
Ritsumeikan University - a similar Kunisada print from 1815
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo Omiwa, the daughter of Sugi the saké seller, appears in 5 prints in the Lyon Collection. Three of them are different printings of the same image by Hokushū. In one of the prints she is mention in the physical description in reference to a Hirosada print.

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There is a diptych by Kunisada of this same scene in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. See the link above. It dates from ca. 1818.

One of the most striking elements of this performer's outfit is the very modern looking, stylized hares.

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The copy of this print in the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo is dated to 3/1821. Also, their copy shows the full publisher's seal.
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
Arashi Koroku IV (四代目嵐小六: from 11/1817 to 11/1826) (actor)
Toshikuraya Shinbei (利倉屋新兵衛) (publisher)