…; purchased from the dealer Hasegawa, Japan, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1992;¹¹Coll. cat. Goslings 1999, p. 62, cat. no. 138 by whom donated to the museum, 1995

Object number: RP-P-1995-294

Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

For general notes on the series, see rp-p-1995-292.

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VI wearing the chestnut-brown clothes and hair ornaments identified with the main role in the play Shibaraku.

Danjuro VI, known as ‘Small Eye’, Kodama, Approved by Sansho VII, Rokudaime Kodama Danjuro - kiwame shichidaime Sansho, with seal: Yau, from un untitled series on The Danjuro Family Tradition of Kabuki Actors.

Ichikawa Danjuro VI (1778-99), the son of Ichikawa Danjuro V, first acted under the name Ichikawa Ebizo IV. He acted under the name Danjuro from XI/1791 to V/1799.

The reprint edition with various modifications is in the collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden (1353-1452).

One poem by Tanehiko [Ryutei Tanehiko, 1783-1842, one of the greatest novelists of his day, also used the name Yanagi no Kazenari when writing kyoka poetry].²²Kano, Kaian (ed.), Kyoka jinmei jisho (Dictionary of Names of Kyoka Poets). Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 1977 (1928), p. 125.

The poem is a haiku reading:
His face is made-up like the crimson Winter plum, his nose sticking out like a six-petalled blossom.

Issued by the Danjuro Fan Club in 1825
Signature reading: the late ko Toyokuni hitsu

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 523

M. Forrer, 2013, 'Utagawa (I) Toyokuni, The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VI, Japan, 1825', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200382612