COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
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AMICA ID:
AIC_.1925.2478
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AIC_.1925.2478
AMICA ID
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AMICA Library Year:
1998
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1998
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Object Type:
Prints
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Prints
Object Type
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Creator Name:
Katsukawa, Shunko
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Katsukawa, Shunko
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Creator Nationality:
Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
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Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
Creator Nationality
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Creator Dates/Places:
Japanese; 1743-1812 Asia,East Asia,Japan
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Japanese; 1743-1812 Asia,East Asia,Japan
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Creator Name-CRT:
Katsukawa Shunko
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Katsukawa Shunko
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Title:
The actor Yoshizawa Ayame IV as Yadorigi, the sister of Nikaido Shinanosuke, disguised as Orie, the wife of Aoto Magosaburo, in part two of the play Motomishi Yuki Sakae Hachi no Ki (Looking up at Falling Snow: Thriving Potted Trees)
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The actor Yoshizawa Ayame IV as Yadorigi, the sister of Nikaido Shinanosuke, disguised as Orie, the wife of Aoto Magosaburo, in part two of the play Motomishi Yuki Sakae Hachi no Ki (Looking up at Falling Snow: Thriving Potted Trees)
Title
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Title Type:
preferred
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Title Type
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View:
full view
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full view
View
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Creation Date:
Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month, 1778
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Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month, 1778
Creation Date
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Creation Start Date:
1778
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1778
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Creation End Date:
1778
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1778
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Materials and Techniques:
Woodblock print.
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Woodblock print.
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Classification Term:
Woodblock
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Woodblock
Classification Term
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Creation Place:
Asia,East Asia,Japan
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Asia,East Asia,Japan
Creation Place
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Dimensions:
Hosoban, probably the right sheet of a diptych; 30.5 x 15.0 cm
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Hosoban, probably the right sheet of a diptych; 30.5 x 15.0 cm
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AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
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The Art Institute of Chicago
AMICA Contributor
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Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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ID Number:
1925.2478
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1925.2478
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Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection
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The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection
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Inscriptions:
SIGNATURE: Katsukawa Shunko ga
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SIGNATURE: Katsukawa Shunko ga
Inscriptions
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Rights:
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<a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html"target="_new">http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html</a>
Rights
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Context:
Though quite severely faded - Ayame IV's purple kimono and the iris on the haori jacket have paled to a light sand color - this robust design shows Shunko's figure drawing at its most accomplished. The costumed figure of the actor fills the narrow hosoban sheet almost to its edges in a composition of broad, sweeping curves. Yadorigi's skirts fan out into an immaculate half-circle over the snow, and her snow-covered travelling hat forms a generous three-quarter-moon shape over her head.Snow scenes were derigueur in opening-ofthe-season (kaomise) productions, and this particular play was a variation on the ever popular Hachi no Ki (The Potted Trees). In Shunko's design Ayame IV as Orie is clearly leading something into the picture, and reference to the illustrated program (ehon banzuke) shows that this was an ox on which was seated her husband, Aoto Magosaburo Fujitsuna (played by Matsumoto Koshiro IV) (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 110.1, p.302). Kabuki Nempyo mentions that once on stage the couple had an amusing domestic quarrel. Possibly this was intended as a parody of the (serious) scene in Hachi no Ki in which Hojo Tokiyori, who has taken holy orders, is rebuked on religious grounds by a man with a horse. The horse is tired, but Tokiyori wants nevertheless to ride it through the snow to the village of Sano, where they will find lodgings. The horse's owner refuses, however, saying that a monk should have more compassion for an animal and should furthermore willingly undergo the austerity ofwalking through the snow himself.Whether or not this was the intended reference, the scene as played in 1778 was clearly colorful and comic. We can only regret that the left sheet of what was obviously a diptych, showing Koshiro IV on the ox, has yet to be discovered.
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Though quite severely faded - Ayame IV's purple kimono and the iris on the haori jacket have paled to a light sand color - this robust design shows Shunko's figure drawing at its most accomplished. The costumed figure of the actor fills the narrow hosoban sheet almost to its edges in a composition of broad, sweeping curves. Yadorigi's skirts fan out into an immaculate half-circle over the snow, and her snow-covered travelling hat forms a generous three-quarter-moon shape over her head.Snow scenes were derigueur in opening-ofthe-season (kaomise) productions, and this particular play was a variation on the ever popular Hachi no Ki (The Potted Trees). In Shunko's design Ayame IV as Orie is clearly leading something into the picture, and reference to the illustrated program (ehon banzuke) shows that this was an ox on which was seated her husband, Aoto Magosaburo Fujitsuna (played by Matsumoto Koshiro IV) (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 110.1, p.302). Kabuki Nempyo mentions that once on stage the couple had an amusing domestic quarrel. Possibly this was intended as a parody of the (serious) scene in Hachi no Ki in which Hojo Tokiyori, who has taken holy orders, is rebuked on religious grounds by a man with a horse. The horse is tired, but Tokiyori wants nevertheless to ride it through the snow to the village of Sano, where they will find lodgings. The horse's owner refuses, however, saying that a monk should have more compassion for an animal and should furthermore willingly undergo the austerity ofwalking through the snow himself.Whether or not this was the intended reference, the scene as played in 1778 was clearly colorful and comic. We can only regret that the left sheet of what was obviously a diptych, showing Koshiro IV on the ox, has yet to be discovered.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E19797.TIF
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AIC_.E19797.TIF
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