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
This 1854 Metropolitan Museum of Art pair of vertical [chuban](/glossary/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](/glossary/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.
Late 1830s or early 1840s
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Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
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n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
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.