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Kabuki Highlights: Suketakaya Takasuke, Nakamura Shikan, Ichikawa Sadanji and Ichikawa Danjürö
Kabuki Highlights: Suketakaya Takasuke, Nakamura Shikan, Ichikawa Sadanji and Ichikawa Danjürö
Kabuki Highlights: Suketakaya Takasuke, Nakamura Shikan, Ichikawa Sadanji and Ichikawa Danjürö

Kabuki Highlights: Suketakaya Takasuke, Nakamura Shikan, Ichikawa Sadanji and Ichikawa Danjürö

Titles
  • Suketakaya Takasuke, Nakamura Shikan, Ichikawa Sadanji, Ichikawa Danjürö
  • 助高屋高助、中村 芝翫、市川左団次、市川団十郎
Artist (Japanese, 1835 - 1900)
Publisher (c. 1880s)
Date1881
GeographyJapan
MediumColor woodblock print
Dimensions14 9/16 x 9 13/16 in. (37 x 25 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Philip H. Roach Jr., 2010 (31745)
Object number31745
DescriptionTwo famous scenes from popular kabuki plays. Upper inset shows the encounter of two rivals (play by Nakamura Shikan, Sukedakaya Takasuke) at "Saya-ate" scene from "Kuruwa Nikki". The lower inset depicts the Japanese hero. Watonai (left: played by Ichikawa Danjuro) and the Chinese counterpart, Kanki (Ichikawa Sadanji)
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