Showing posts with label Kunihiro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kunihiro. Show all posts

Saturday 24 June 2017

69 - Kunihiro: Nakamura Shikan II as Nuregami Chôgorô and Nakamura Matsue III as keisei Miyako


Ukiyo-e. Kunihiro. Yakusha-e.
Kunihiro: Nakamura Shikan II as Nuregami Chôgorô and Nakamura Matsue III as keisei Miyako


Here we have a yakusha-e by Utagawa Kunihiro, Nakamura Shikan II as Nuregami Chôgorô and Nakamura Matsue III as keisei [courtesan] Miyako in the play Futatsu chôchô kuruwa nikki, from the Kado Theater in Osaka in 1827.


Saturday 18 June 2016

16 - Kunihiro: Actor Onoe Tamizo as Tenjiku Tokubei Performing Toad Magic


Ukiyo-e. Woodblock Print. Kunihiro. Yakusha-e. Kabuki. Toad Magic.
Kunihiro: Actor Onoe Tamizo as Tenjiku Tokubei Performing Toad Magic - 1832

This is "Actor Onoe Tamizo as Tenjiku Tokubei Performing Toad Magic", a woodblock print by Utagawa Kunihiro. It is a yakusha-e from the kabuki play "Otonikiku ikoku no irifune". The print is from 1832.

Utagawa Kunihiro was active 1815-1841/1843, and belonged to the Osaka school.