vertical ōban diptych; a (left): squatting figure wearing a white headscarf and holding a green box with yellow flowers, tied with a red cord, wearing a black kimono with white symbols; b (right): standing man holding a man and wearing a brown and blue kimono with white symbols, leaning on a bamboo gate with two doors, which separate the figures; bold text in top outer corners and center outer edges; round cartouches with text at center of left sheet and LRQ of right sheet; rectangular cartouches with text in LRQ of each sheet

Actors Onoe Eizaburō III as Ōboshi Yuranosuke (R) and Iwai Kumesaburō II as Ōboshi Rikiya (L), early 1830s

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Related to the play Kanadehon Chūshingura 仮名手本忠臣蔵.

Details
Title
Actors Onoe Eizaburō III as Ōboshi Yuranosuke (R) and Iwai Kumesaburō II as Ōboshi Rikiya (L)
Artist Life
1786 - 1865
Role
Artist
Accession Number
96.146.104.36a,b
Catalogue Raisonne
P0016-082.1, P0016-082.2
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vertical ōban diptych; a (left): squatting figure wearing a white headscarf and holding a green box with yellow flowers, tied with a red cord, wearing a black kimono with white symbols; b (right): standing man holding a man and wearing a brown and blue kimono with white symbols, leaning on a bamboo gate with two doors, which separate the figures; bold text in top outer corners and center outer edges; round cartouches with text at center of left sheet and LRQ of right sheet; rectangular cartouches with text in LRQ of each sheet