A Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan in the costume of Yaegaki Hime (Princess Yaegaki), holding a lantern, in a photographic studio in front of a plain background.

Moriyama, S.

Date:: [approximately 1900]

Reference:: 541647i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

Pictures

Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Japanese and Korean portraits.
  - A Kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan in the costume of Yaegaki Hime (Princess Yaegaki), holding a lantern, in a photographic studio in front of a plain background.541647i

About this work

Description

There have been several Kabuki actors called Nakamura Shikan: this one may be Nakamura Shikan IV (1831-1899) or Nakamura Shikan V (1865-1940), also known as Nakamura Utaemon V

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Lettering

Japanese characters written on the verso naming the actor and the role

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer, with the aid of Mutsumi Sato, 2002.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 541647i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.