Gigadō Ashiyuki (戯画堂芦ゆき) (artist )
Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫) as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷直実) from a production of Ichinotani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
05/1826
10.5 in x 15 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
Signed: Gigadō Ashiyuki ga
戯画堂芦ゆき画
Publisher's seal: Wataya Kihei (seen in a faint impression a little below the horses tail in the lower right)
Google map - Suma Bay near Kobe - the Suma Ward is highlighted in red
Hankyu Culture Foundation
Library of Congress - a very similar, unattributed print
Tokyo Fuji Museum of Art Nakamura Shikan II as the Genji general Kumagai Naozane in armor astride a black stallion on the beach wielding a war fan. Appearing in the water in Suma Bay is his enemy, the young Heike warrior Atsumori. From the play Ichinotani Futaba Gunki at the Kitahorie Theater in 5/1826.
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Illustrated in Ikeda Bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shūsei (Collected Kamigata Actor Prints), vol. 1, Ikeda Bunko Library, Osaka 1997, no. 252.
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
warrior prints (musha-e - 武者絵) (genre)
Kyōto-Osaka prints (kamigata-e - 上方絵) (genre)
Nakamura Shikan II (二代目中村芝翫: 11/1825 - 12/1835) (actor)
Ichinotani Futaba Gunki (一の谷嫩軍記) (kabuki)
Kumagai Jirō Naozane (熊谷直実) (role)
Wataya Kihei (綿屋喜兵衛) (author)