Original woodblock print - Washi paper - Tattooed Sumo Wrestler 力士 and Yakuza ヤクザ - Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) - The Gangster Seiriki Tomigoro 勢力富五郎 from the series "A Modern Suikoden" 近世水滸伝 - Japan - 1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyu 1), 6th month
The man who, in this important woodblock print by the artist Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) , shows off a magnificent tattoo of a dragon is Seiriki Tomigoro (勢力富五郎) , sumo wrestler (力士) and servant of the yakuza (ヤクザ) boss Sasagawa no Shigezo (笹川繁蔵) . In the upper part of the work the writer and journalist Nozaki Bunzo (野崎文蔵) , better known to the public under the pseudonym Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文) , traces a quick biography narrating among other things his involvement in the bloody showdown between his clan and that of boss Iioka no Sukegoro (飯岡助五郎) . The print, in which the protagonist is presented with the fictitious name Keiriki (競力) and is played by the actor Nakamura Shikan IV (四代目中村芝翫) , is taken from the series "A Modern Suikoden" (近世水滸伝) , a referring to the famous Chinese novel "Shui Hu Zhuan" (水浒传) , literally "The Story by the Water Margin", which tells the adventurous epic of a gang of 108 outlaws. The woodcut, produced in June 1861 by the publisher Iseya Kanekichi (伊勢屋兼吉) and by the carver Matsushima Masakichi (松島彫政) , despite the right signs of aging and a partial trimming of the margins, is in overall very good conditions. See Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: https: //collections. mfa. org/objects/476754 and Waseda University: https: //archive. waseda. jp/archive/detail. html? arg={%22sub. DB_id%22: %2252%22,%22id%22: %22203635; 1%22}&lang=en The woodblock print will be well-packaged and shipped by registered mail with a tracking code.
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The man who, in this important woodblock print by the artist Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) , shows off a magnificent tattoo of a dragon is Seiriki Tomigoro (勢力富五郎) , sumo wrestler (力士) and servant of the yakuza (ヤクザ) boss Sasagawa no Shigezo (笹川繁蔵) . In the upper part of the work the writer and journalist Nozaki Bunzo (野崎文蔵) , better known to the public under the pseudonym Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文) , traces a quick biography narrating among other things his involvement in the bloody showdown between his clan and that of boss Iioka no Sukegoro (飯岡助五郎) . The print, in which the protagonist is presented with the fictitious name Keiriki (競力) and is played by the actor Nakamura Shikan IV (四代目中村芝翫) , is taken from the series "A Modern Suikoden" (近世水滸伝) , a referring to the famous Chinese novel "Shui Hu Zhuan" (水浒传) , literally "The Story by the Water Margin", which tells the adventurous epic of a gang of 108 outlaws. The woodcut, produced in June 1861 by the publisher Iseya Kanekichi (伊勢屋兼吉) and by the carver Matsushima Masakichi (松島彫政) , despite the right signs of aging and a partial trimming of the margins, is in overall very good conditions. See Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: https: //collections. mfa. org/objects/476754 and Waseda University: https: //archive. waseda. jp/archive/detail. html? arg={%22sub. DB_id%22: %2252%22,%22id%22: %22203635; 1%22}&lang=en The woodblock print will be well-packaged and shipped by registered mail with a tracking code.
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