UTAGAWA KUNISADA III
(歌川国貞)
aka Baidô Hôsai
(梅堂豊斎); Baidô Kunimasa IV (梅堂国政); Kôchôrô Hôsai (香朝楼豊斎)
1921
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Miuranosuke (三浦之助)
Play: Kamakura Sandaiki
(鎌倉三代記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: This posthumous design was
originally issued in a slightly different
color scheme circa September 1918
when Uzaemon XV played this role at
the Yokohama-za. The print is signed
"Kunimatsu," but that is believed to be
a pseudonym adopted by the publisher
to hide the fact that it recycles Kunisada
III's original design a few months after
Kunisada's death and is not suggestive
that the artist in question was Utagawa
Kunimatsu (歌川國松).