Original Japanese color woodblock print **"Bunraku Theater Stage Set for " Natsumatsuri Naniwa Kagami" (The Summer Festival in Naniwa), **by artist Hasegawa Sadanobu III (1881–1963) in 1926. From his series titled _The Illustrated Collection of Famous Japanese Puppets of the Osaka Bunrakuza. _
As originally issued, this print is complete with its tissue overlay showing the outlines of three puppet characters as they appear on stage.__
The play, written by Namiki Senryū (aka Namiki Sōsuke), Miyoshi Shōraku and Takeda Koizumo and first staged in August 1745 in Osaka. The story is based on a murder by a fish dealer that occurred in Osaka Nagamachiura (the current Nipponbashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka City) in the winter of 1698.
The tissue is intact, but shows creases, as photographed.
Print attached to black matte, print measures 14 3/8" x 9 3/4"
60-5857
$150.00
