second name, Takasuke, which he is not known to have used until at least ten years after the date of this performance. The impression we show is the only known duplicate and is the one reproduced in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 297 (color plate 85), Rumpf 110, Kurth, Nakata and Noguchi.
Hosoye. Untinted ground with decoration of maple leaves. Signed: Sharaku.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Buckingham Collection).
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Ichikawa Danjūrō VI as Mimana Yukinori, the son of Yukinari.
The outer robe is in white and faded violet with medallions in green and white. The under one is rose and white and has the medallions in white and faded violet. The sash is green and yellow. The mirror case is yellow and rose. As in the rest of the set the foreground is yellow. This is the fourth sheet in a pentaptych composed of numbers 94 to 98.
The inscribed impression in the dealer’s advertisement (see number 94) is reproduced by Kurth and Nakata and as Rumpf number 111. It is signed Sharaku. The only recorded duplicate is the one we show and this has been trimmed so deeply that the signature cannot be seen.
The inscription referred to notes that the Danjūrō here represented is the sixth of his line. To avoid confusion it may be well to explain that Ebizō IV, who had won great fame as Danjūrō V, was the father of this actor. In the eleventh month of 1791 he exchanged names with his young son, then aged 15, who had previously been known as Ebizō III, and therefore during the period of Sharaku’s brief productivity the father was called Ebizō IV and the son Danjūrō VI.
Hosoye. Untinted ground with decoration of maple leaves.
Museum of Fine Arts (Spaulding Collection).
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