Man with chrysanthemum seated in pine tree, A Chinese man, seated on the jagged trunk of a pine tree, holds a chrysanthemum in his right hand. The print refers to the actor Onoe Shoroku I (Matsusuke I). The text is by his adopted son Onoe Kikugorô III (Baikô III). The first words read: This year is the 27th Buddhist Memorial Day of my late father Shôroku. Kikugorô further writes that the commemoration will take place during his temporary stay in Naniwa, or the Osaka-Kyoto region. This refers to his stay from the eleventh month in 1840 to the first moon in 1842. To the left of the text is a poe
Man with chrysanthemum seated in pine tree, A Chinese man, seated on the jagged trunk of a pine tree, holds a chrysanthemum in his right hand. The print refers to the actor Onoe Shoroku I (Matsusuke I). The text is by his adopted son Onoe Kikugorô III (Baikô III). The first words read: This year is the 27th Buddhist Memorial Day of my late father Shôroku. Kikugorô further writes that the commemoration will take place during his temporary stay in Naniwa, or the Osaka-Kyoto region. This refers to his stay from the eleventh month in 1840 to the first moon in 1842. To the left of the text is a poem. The chrysanthemum refers to the actor Kikugorô III, who in the Ônishi Theater in the 9th month of 1841 paid special attention to the 27th death anniversary commemoration of Shôroku (ref. Kabuki Nenpyô volume 6, p. 430)., print maker: Ryûsai Shigeharu, (mentioned on object), publisher: Tenmaya Kihei, (mentioned on object), Osaka, 1841, paper, color woodcut, height mm × width mm
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