Hokuei

(R) Nakamura Shikan II as Onigatake & (L) Ichikawa Ebizô V as Akitsushima in Sekitori nidai kagami (Mirror of the second generation wrestler), Kado Theater, Osaka

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Artist seal: Hokuei

Honsei (Honya Seishichi)

3/1834

Format:
(H x W)

Ôban nishiki-e
372 x 510 cm

Very good

Good (right sheet retains a 5mm-wide left-hand margin with an album fold; slight fading, mostly of purple; very slight soil at edges; two tiny insect holes at far edges of each sheet; very slight horizontal crease top center on right sheet)

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Background

We have so far been unable to identify the plot of this play, Sekitori nidai kagami ("Mirror of the Second Generation Wrestler": 関取二代鑑).

Design

The actors' roles and names are given in cartouches drawn as gyôji no uchiwa (judge's fan: 御璽の團扇) used by sumô referees.

This impression is comparable to the one in the Waseda University collection; both have a dark brown pigment for Ebizô's underrobe (another edition is known with a light pink color for the robe). This is an uncommon diptych in Hokuei's oeuvre, known by only a few examples.

References: WAS I-4, no. 508