Ichikawa Ebizō V as Senso Dōjin (right); Jitsukawa Ensaburō as Jiraiya (left)
- Date:
- 1854
- Medium:
- Pair of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper; vertical chūban
- Source:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Description
This 1854 Metropolitan Museum of Art pair of vertical chuban woodblock prints by Hasegawa Sadanobu I presents Ichikawa Ebizo V as Senso Dojin (right sheet) opposite Jitsukawa Ensaburo as the celebrated outlaw-hero Jiraiya (left sheet) — a confrontation scene from a kabuki adaptation of the Jiraiya legends that were widely popular in late-Edo theaters. Ichikawa Ebizo V, the great Edo star whose name traveled extensively throughout the late-Edo theatrical economy, was paired here with the Osaka-based Jitsukawa Ensaburo in the kind of cross-regional collaboration that briefly enlivened Osaka theaters in the early 1850s. Sadanobu's diptych composition uses the paired chuban format to stage the actors' confrontation across the sheet boundary, while the rich color printing — including likely metallic pigments and embossing — demonstrates the technical refinement of mid-1850s Osaka publishing. Accessioned as 2011.150 from the Greenfield bequest, the pair preserves a complete diptych in original alignment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Ichikawa Ebizō V as Senso Dōjin (right); Jitsukawa Ensaburō as Jiraiya (left) was created by Hasegawa Sadanobu I (長谷川貞信) in 1854.
Ichikawa Ebizō V as Senso Dōjin (right); Jitsukawa Ensaburō as Jiraiya (left) depicts landscapes.