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As with many (most) of the prints in these Taisho subscription sets, an exact original cannot usually be identified. This print may be patterned after a design by Kiyotsune now stored in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (image in the Additional Images tab)
They have identified the two actors as : Segawa Kikunojô II as Matsukaze and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Narihira
We also have the original wrapper for this print (which came as a pair together with a Hokusai design). This was produced by the 美術木版画会出版 (Bijutsu Mokuhanga-kai Shuppan), and the wrapper tells us that this was issue #17 of the series.
This print was listed as: 見立曽我 (Mitate Soga - Soga Parody), brush of Torii Kiyomitsu.
Other prints in this set
- Taisho era subscription prints
- Kaigetsudo Beauty
- Soga Parody
- Two Beautiful Young Housewives
- Parody of Chinese Theme
- Parody of Chinese Theme
- At the Fukagawa Pleasure Quarter
- Dancers as Parody of Ebisu and Daikoku
- Parody of a Kokin Wakashū poem
- Crane over Waves
- Harukoma Dance
- Scene from Hachinoki
- Parody of Morals for Women
- Kabuki Actor Nakamura Nakazō II
- Fuji from a Window
- Climbers on Mt. Fuji
- Two Women Dancing Sanbasō
- Beauty Catching Fireflies
- Yaoya Oshichi in front of a Mirror
- Higuchi's Wife Tokonatsu
- Ichimatsu and Shōtaro
- Beauty and Rooster
- Beauty with Umbrella
- Monkey Trainer on the Sumida River
- Young Woman with Fireflies
- Courtesan and Helper
- Ono no Tōfū Watching a Frog
- Beauty Battling the Wind
- Cooling Off in the Evening
- Autumn Breeze
- Beauty in the Wind
- Harunobu Snow Scene
- Courtesan Burning a Love Letter
- Courtesan and Dog
- Courtesan Beside a Lamp
- Making Tanabata Decorations
- Bats on a Summer Evening
- Kaoru & Eguchi of the Shin-Kanaya
- Ono no Komachi and Seki Temple
- Heron and Crow
- Two Courtesans on a Balcony
- Kisen Hoshi
- A summer scene
- Danjuro
- Hair Washing
- Evening Bell of the Long Stay
- New Year's Scene
- Outing in the snow
- Going out together
- Tanikaze and Naniwaya Okita