Woodblock print (aizuri-e); color on paperexpand_more
Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Cultureexpand_more 2013.29.1157
Related to the play "Sugawara denju tenarai kagami" 菅原伝授手習鑑 (Sugawara's Secrets of Calligraphy), performed at the Nakamura Theatre, 1832, 5th month.
This is an aizuri-e(blue print) fan print, which shows the actor Bando Mitsugorō IV (1802–1863) as Kan Shōjō in the play Sugawara denju tenarai kagami (Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy), performed in 1832. This portrait depicts the scene in which Kan Shōjō has climbed Mount Tenpai and, in a rage, transforms himself into a demon surrounded by red lightning.
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