Seki Sanjuro III (三代目関三十郎) as Iwaki Hyôbu (岩木兵部) and Iwai Kumesaburo III (三代目岩井粂三郎) as a wife Oritsu (女房おりつ)
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.11.64
DescriptionA scene from a play titled 'Kama-ga-fuchi futatsu tomoe (釜渕双級巴),' performed at the Nakamura theatre (中村座) from 15th day of the 9th month, 1857.
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).'
