PAUL BINNIE
2020
Nakayama Tomisaburo I (中山富三郎) as Umegawa (梅川) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô IV (松本幸四郎) as Magoemon ( 孫右衛門)
Performance Place: Kiri-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/1794
Print Title: Kabukichô (歌舞伎町)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Note: This print incorporates figures from recarved Tôshûsai
Sharaku (東洲斎 写楽) blocks.
Nakayama Tomisaburo I (中山富三郎) as Umegawa (梅川) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô IV (松本幸四郎) as Magoemon ( 孫右衛門)
Performance Place: Kiri-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/1794
Personal Collection
Note: This print was printed by Binnie from recarved Tôshûsai
Sharaku
(東洲斎 写楽) blocks that the artist had acquired . The design
was
incorporated into the artist's print Kabukichô (歌舞伎町). This
print was
printed as close as possible in what is believed to have been the
original
unfaded color scheme of the Sharaku print. That color scheme
was
intentionally altered for theKabukichô print to give the figures a
more
ghostly pallor.