Sawamura Tossho II (二代目沢村訥升) as Iwagi Toba (岩木当馬)
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1857
Maker: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞)
Medium: O-ban Nishiki-e (大判錦絵, large-format coloured print)
Object number: O.11.62
DescriptionA scene from a play titled 'Kama-ga-fuchi futatsu tomoe (釜渕双級巴).'
The story is based on an actual historical incident in which the thief Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門) was sentenced to be boiled in a kettle with his child on Sanjo-kawara (三条河原), Kyoto.
The story is based on an actual historical incident in which the thief Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門) was sentenced to be boiled in a kettle with his child on Sanjo-kawara (三条河原), Kyoto.
By same maker
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- Seki Sanjuro III (三代目関三十郎) as Gyojji Shokuro (行司庄九郎) and Arashi Kanjuro (嵐冠十郎) as Onigatake (鬼ヶ嶽)
- Commemoration of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII in various roles. (死絵 八代目市川團十郎)
- Scenes from a play titled 'The capital (Kyoto) from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido highway (吾嬬下五十三駅).'
