Archive: Tessai Nobukatsu (哲齋信勝), earlier called Shigenao (重直)

Arashi Rikan II as Oguri Hangan Kaneuji in Hime kurabe futaba ezôshi, Naka Theater, Osaka

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Sadamasu monjin Nobukatsu ga (Drawn by Nobukatsu, pupil of Sadamasu)

Seal

Tenki (Tenmaya Kihei: 天満屋喜兵衞)

1/ 1833

Format:
(H x W)

Ôban deluxe edition
39.0 x 26.7 cm

Very good

good color; good condition (full size; metallics; intricate burnished pattern on hakama; unbacked; repaired wormhole upper left corner; light creasing from album mounting along left edge; very minor soil and stay pigment marks; slightly thinned areas on verso)

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Design

Oguri stands with a hawk perched on his arm; a poem by the actor Rikan, sealed with a tachibana (mandarin orange) mon, the crest of the Arashi lineage of actors, and enclosing the character for ren (here, a term for poetry circle); one of the very few known deluxe designs signed by Nobukatsu; Provenance: Okada Collection.