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SHUNMAN Kubo (1757-1820)
A Beauty with the Actor Bando Mitsugoro III. c.1812.
- Category
- Japanese | 20th Century
- Publisher
- Privately published.
surimono shikishiban, 17.7 cm × 20.2 cm
Excellent impression, embellished with extensive silver detail. Excellent colour. Good condition. Some thinning to the paper at the edges.
A rare surimono (printed thing) portraying the acclaimed actor Bando Mitsugoro III smoking a kisari pipe in front of a hibachi fire bowl. The beautiful woman holds a Keshō-mawashi sumo loin cloth upon which kaminari (thunder) is inscribed. Bando Mitsugoro III played the wrestler Kaminari Tsurunosuke in the play "Sugata no Hana Azuma no Datezome", performed at the Ichimura theatre 3/1812.
A witty kyoka verse by Kinshiro Kazutomo imagines the New Year emblems of a warbler and plum blossom pitted against one another in a sumo match.
Hatsu haru no / ôzeki to matsu / miedasuki / oshidashi no kiku / ume ni uguisu
(thanks to Alfred Haft for the translation)
Red Shunman seal. Unidentified seal verso.
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