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Subject:unidentified kabuki actor
Posted By: Jacob Wed, May 18, 2016 IP: 86.120.26.60 Hello, |
Subject:Re: unidentified kabuki actor
Posted By: Stan Wed, May 18, 2016 I think it is Ichikawa Ebizo V. If I am right, this is a very early Kunisada print because the Ichikawa Ebizo V name was used between 1797 and 1807 (when the actor took the Ichikawa Danjuro VII name). Kunisada (1786 - 1864) would have been about 20 years old when this was done. |
Subject:Re: unidentified kabuki actor
Posted By: Guy Thu, May 19, 2016 This is Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) in the role of the villainous Yashio (八汐), a court woman who kills Masaoka’s son, probably in the play 'Zensei kogane no hana', staged in 1832 (not sure of that). |
Subject:Re: unidentified kabuki actor
Posted By: Jacob Fri, May 20, 2016 Hello, |
Subject:Re: unidentified kabuki actor
Posted By: geo. Sat, May 21, 2016 Here's a chronology of Ichikawa Danjuro VII's career that explains a little bit about the name changes http://www.kabuki21.com/ebizo5.php |
Subject:Re: unidentified kabuki actor
Posted By: Stan Sun, May 22, 2016 Dang! I didn't notice that he took the name back in 1932. |
Subject:Re: unidentified kabuki actor
Posted By: geo. Tue, May 24, 2016 There's a couple of other things that date the print a little too. The style of really early Kunisada prints was different, with the eyes of the actors most noticeably being sort of "bug" eyed, and his early signature was much more squarish with the "go" character being the more traditional form, rather than the more stylized "lazy V" sort of thing he used later on. The print just doesn't look that early. |
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