MICHAEL JAY KNIGIN

1979

               
"Thunder & Shower I" after Yoshitaki
 
Print Date: 1979 (ed. 300)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: The Japanese Suite
 
Note: The actor in the original 1865 Yoshitaki print was  Jitsukawa Enjaku I
(実川延若; 實川延若) as Karigane Shôtarô (鴈星正太郎) in the play Narihibiku
[Narukami] Date no Yudachi (鳴雷達夕立).  The Yoshitaki print was a mitate-e,
so there was no original performance date.

               
"Thunder & Shower II" after Yoshitaki
 
Print Date: 1979 (ed. 300)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: The Japanese Suite
 
Note: The actor in the original 1865 Yoshitaki print was Arashi Tokusaburô IV
(嵐徳三郎) as Karajishi Tokuza (唐獅子徳三) in the play Narihibiku [Narukami]
Date no Yudachi (鳴雷達夕立).  The Yoshitaki print was a mitate-e, so there
was no original performance date.
 

               
"Thunder & Shower II 2" after Yoshitaki
 
Print Date: 2004 (AP, ed. ?)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: The Japanese Suite
 
Note: The actor in the original 1865 Yoshitaki print was Arashi Tokusaburô IV
(嵐徳三郎) as Karajishi Tokuza (唐獅子徳三) in the play Narihibiku [Narukami]
Date no Yudachi (鳴雷達夕立).  The Yoshitaki print was a mitate-e, so there
was no original performance date.
 
 

               
"Thunder & Shower III" after Yoshitaki
 
Print Date: 1979 (ed. 300)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: The Japanese Suite
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: The actor in the original 1865 Yoshitaki print was Nakamura Sôjûrô I
(中村宗十郎) as Suehiro Sôjûrô (末広宗十郎) in the play Narihibiku
[Narukami] Date no Yudachi (鳴雷達夕立).  The Yoshitaki print was a mitate-e,
so there was no original performance date.
 
 

               
"Ensaburo" after Kunishige
 
Print Date: 1979 (ed. 300)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: The Japanese Suite
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: The actor in the original Kunishige print was likely Jitsukawa
Ensaburo I (実川延三郎; 實川延三郎).

               
"Actor" after Kunishige
 
Print Date: 1979 (ed. 40)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: The Japanese Suite
 
Note: The actor in the original March 1849 Kunishige print was
Nakamura Karoku I (中村歌六) as Oyumi (お弓) in the play Keisei
Awa no Naruto (順礼阿波鳴門).