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国政四代 / 大川端箱夫殺 花井阿梅の略伝

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作品
年代 : 明治21年
サイズ : 大判3枚続
刷 : 良
保存 : 良
詳細 : 小虫穴 / マージンに欠け

ディレクターコメント
花井お梅の殺人事件は、お梅が美しい芸妓であったことから話題となり、裁判の際には傍聴席は満員となり、通りにはお梅を一目見ようと野次馬が押し寄せたという。
お梅は養父の元で芸を磨き、その器量の良さからやがて人気の芸妓となった。その後、実父が開いた待合(※)を手伝い始めた。しかし実父との折り合いは悪く、喧嘩して家を飛び出してしまう。やがて和解の為に戻ったお梅であったが、箱屋(※)の峰吉に仲裁を頼むも、峰吉は了承せず、常日頃より父の味方ばかりする峰吉にお梅の憎しみは頂点に達し、出刃包丁で刺し殺すに至った。事の経緯は諸説あり、峰吉が仲裁する代わりに自分の女になれと包丁で脅したところをもみ合いになり誤って殺してしまったという話もある。結局お梅は有罪となり、無期懲役を言い渡され、投獄された後もその動向は注目の的であったという。
※待合: 主に芸妓との遊興や飲食を目的として利用された貸座敷
※箱屋: 座敷に向かう芸妓に同行する付き人のような存在

国政四代は豊国三代の門人で、国政四代と称した。豊国三代の没後、国貞二代に学ぶ。明治22年に三代目として国貞の名を継ぎ、香蝶楼と号す。さらに明治24年以降、豊斎と号した。主に開化絵、役者絵を描き、初代市川左團次の似顔絵を得意としていた。風俗画も多く描いている。

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Information
Date : 1888
Size : O-ban / Triptych
Impression : Good
Condition : Good
Detail : Small wormholes / Missing part on margin

The murder case by Hanai Oume became a hot topic because Oume was a beautiful geiko (licensed prostitute), and at the trial, the auditorium was packed and onlookers thronged the streets to get a glimpse of Oume.
Oume learned the art under her adoptive father and eventually became a popular geiko because of her good character. Later, she began to help out at the waiting room* opened by her biological father. However, she and her father did not get along well, and they quarreled and she ran away from home. Oume eventually returned to reconcile with her father, but when she asked Minekichi of Hakoya* to mediate, he did not agree, and Oume's hatred for Minekichi, who was always on her father's side, reached its peak, leading her to stab him to death with a knife. There are various theories as to how the incident occurred. Some say that Minekichi threatened Oume with a kitchen knife, demanding that she become his woman instead of interceding, and that the two struggled and accidentally killed him. Oume was eventually convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, and even after her incarceration, her movements were the focus of much attention.
*Waiting room: A rental room used mainly for entertainment and eating/drinking with geiko.
*Hakoya: A kind of valet who accompanies a geiko on her way to the tatami room.

KunimasaⅣ is one of the pupils of ToyokuniⅢ.
After ToyokuniⅢ's death, he learned the painting from KunisadaⅡ, and later, he took over Kunisada's name, Kochoro. Finally, after 1889, he changed his name again to Hosai.
He mainly painted Kaika-e, Yakusha-e, and specialized in portraits of Ichikawa Sadanji I. He also painted many genre paintings.

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