Actor Bandō Hikosaburō VI as Matsuōmaru
Natori Shunsen
1928
- Medium
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper with mica and embossing
- Dimensions
- 15 × 10 1/16 in. (38.1 × 25.56 cm) (image) 23 × 19 × 1 1/2 in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.81 cm) (outer frame)
- Genre
Tags
Japan
About
Twenty-ninth design of a set of 36. Actor Bandō Hikosaburō VI (1886-1938) as Matsuōmaru in the scene Tearing the Carriage Apart (Kurumabiki 車引) of the play Mirror of Learning and Transmitting Sugawara's Secrets of Calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami 菅原伝授手習鑑). Matsuōmaru is in the service of the villain Shihei who he must protect from his two brothers trying to avenge their masters.
