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Arashi Rikan II as Danshichi Kurōbei in "Mirror of Naniwa: The Summer Festival"
Shunbaisai HokueiLinkedCulture matchlcp-9bd1e49afa70
- Date
- 1832
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150168
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This print shows Arashi Rikan II (1788–1837) acting in a Kabuki play put on at the Chikugoza Theater in Osaka in 1832. Rikan’s character, Danshichi Kurōbei, was among the otokodate roles, or men who stood up for those without much power in society. Mirror of Naniwa : The Summer Festival remains popular today and has the most well-known Kabuki murder scene, in which Danshichi kills his devious father-in-law, Mikawaya Giheiji. Rikan strikes multiple dramatic poses, called mie , during the episode, which features real mud on the stage. This belongs to a category of Japanese prints called “actor images” ( yakusha - e or 役者絵), which were collected by fans of popular Kabuki actors.
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- Credit line
- Edward L. Whittemore Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1980: (R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1980–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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