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Title

Actors: Arashi Rikan II and Seki Sanjûrô II in Hakkenden

1833-1837

Artist

Shunbaisai HOKUEI

Japan

- circa 1837

An image of Actors: Arashi Rikan II and Seki Sanjûrô II in Hakkenden by Shunbaisai HOKUEI

Details

Other Title

Unidentified scene from Kabuki drama

Place where the work was made

Japan

Date

1833-1837

Media category

Print

Materials used

colour woodcut

Dimensions

35.8 x 49.0 cm

Signature & date

Signed l.l. [left sheet] , in Japanese, ink [incised into block] "Shunbaisai Hokuei ga [picture by Shunbaisai Hokuei]". Not dated.
Signed l.r. [right sheet], in Japanese, ink [incised into block] "Shunbaisai Hokuei ga [picture by Shunbaisai Hokuei]". Not dated.

Credit

Gift of Thea Waddell 1976

Location

Not on display

Accession number

106.1976.a-b

Reproduction requests

Artist information

Shunbaisai HOKUEI

Works in the collection

1

Place

Where the work was made
Japan
Shown in 1 exhibition

Exhibition history

Referenced in 1 publication

Bibliography

AJIOKA Chiaki (Curator), Heroes and villains: from Japan's floating world, Sydney, May 2001, 6. cat.no. 1.7