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Chushingura Neck Contest - Kabuki
by Chikashige Morikawa active ca. 1869-82
| Item | 18692 |
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| Date Sold | Sunday, February 26, 2006 |
| Title | Chushingura Neck Contest - Kabuki |
| Artist | Chikashige Morikawa active ca. 1869-82 |
| Description | "Futatsu Tomoe Isei Kurabe" (The Matching Pairs, The Contest of Power) Popular kabuki actors in the role of the 47 Ronin leader,Oboshi Yuranosuke. Nakamura Chuzo (left) is encouraging Onoe Kikugoro (the second from the left) who is playing the neck pulling contest with Ichikawa Danjuro. Nakamura Sojuro was matched against Ichikawa Sadanji (right). |
| Signature | Morikawa Chikashige. |
| Seal | Toshidama. |
| Dated | Ca. 1870s. |
| Publisher | Yamamura Kinzaburo. |
| Medium/Technique | Woodblock print. |
| Impression | Good. |
| Colors | Excellent - very good. |
| Condition | Very good ... the sheets pasted together, five upper corners rounded, the bottom one third of the right seam separated, lightly trimmed, backed. |
| Format | 3 Oban tate-e |
| Width Item | 28.2 inches = 71.7 cm |
| Height Item | 13.9 inches = 35.3 cm |
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