Catalog record · 目録番号 85098

Ichikawa Yaozo III in a Shibaraku role

Artist / 作者: Katsukawa Shunkō I勝川春好
Date / 年代: 2009
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Heisei / jaodb
Digital image / 画像: 579 × 1200 px
Published by / 公開者: 朱雀ハル

Catalog note / 解説

Saturday, 26 September 2009 Katsukawa SHUNKO (1743-1812) Ichikawa Yaozo III in a Shibaraku role c 1800. This standard Kabuki interlude was invented by Danjuro I as part of the drama Sankai Nagoya in 1697 and translates as “Wait a moment.” The long brick-red costume with the immense mon produced some of the most striking images in ukiyo-e. The best of Shunko’s work certainly equals that of his master and teacher, Shunsho. Provenance: Ex collection Dr. and Mrs. James B. Austin, illustrated in Eight Hundred Years Of Japanese Printmaking, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1976/77, illustration 326, p.79. Good impression and colour. Slight centre fold and minor marks, otherwise very…

Image record / 画像情報

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