COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
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AMICA ID:
AIC_.1942.103
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AIC_.1942.103
AMICA ID
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AMICA Library Year:
1998
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1998
AMICA Library Year
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Object Type:
Prints
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Prints
Object Type
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Creator Name:
Katsukawa, Shunsho
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Katsukawa, Shunsho
Creator Name
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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; 1726-1792 Asia,East Asia,Japan
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Japanese; 1726-1792 Asia,East Asia,Japan
Creator Dates/Places
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Creator Name-CRT:
Katsukawa Shunsho
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Katsukawa Shunsho
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Title:
The sumo wrestler Onogawa Kisaburo of the Eastern Group, with an attendant
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The sumo wrestler Onogawa Kisaburo of the Eastern Group, with an attendant
Title
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Title Type:
preferred
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preferred
Title Type
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View:
full view
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full view
View
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Creation Date:
c. 1782/86
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c. 1782/86
Creation Date
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Creation Start Date:
1782
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1782
Creation Start Date
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Creation End Date:
1786
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1786
Creation End Date
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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
false
Dimensions:
Oban; 39.0 x 26.0 cm (untrimmed)Size: Oban 15 1/4 x 10 1/4"
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Oban; 39.0 x 26.0 cm (untrimmed)Size: Oban 15 1/4 x 10 1/4"
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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
Owner Location
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ID Number:
1942.103
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1942.103
ID Number
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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
Credit Line
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Inscriptions:
SIGNATURE: Shunsho ga
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SIGNATURE: Shunsho 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
false
Context:
Onogawa Kisaburo was the young wrestler from Osaka who caused a sensation in Edo with his upset victory over the champion Tanikaze Kajinosuke in the second month of 1782, ending dramatically the latter's unbroken run of sixty-three victories. It was thisevent more than any other that made the Edo public sumo-mad in the late eighteenth century; it may also have prompted Shunsho to begin designing wrestler prints in that same year.Onogawa ranked in the lowly fifth grade of the junior division when he arrived from Osaka, but once in Edo his rise was meteoric: third grade of maegashira rank in 1781; second grade maegashira in the fall of 1783; sekiwake (the second to highest) rank in 1786; finally achieving the top rank of ozeki in 1789 and retaining this until his retirement in 1798. Since this portrait does not give Onogawa's rank, it cannot be more closely dated than about 1782-1786, the period during which Shunsho designed wrestler prints.Onogawa is dressed in street clothes- a purple-striped cotton kimono and long black haori jacket-and is accompanied by an attendant carrying a bundle. In his hand is a folding fan, suggesting that it is summer, and the towel around his shoulders may indicate that the pair are returning from a tournament. Showing a wrestler in street clothes was perhaps analogous to showing actors backstage. The difference in height between the two figures emphasizes Onogawa's imposing size, and in comparison with the attendant's coarse features (the beard seems to be painted in by hand), the wrestler's broad, smooth face looks positively handsome. Indeed Onogawa seems to have attracted the romantic attentions of many female fans by his resemblance to the contemporary Kabuki heartthrob Ichikawa Monnosuke II. A year after his defeat of Tanikaze, Onogawa married a geisha called Yae from the Yoshiwara pleasure district. He was even featured as a character in a Kabuki play.The indigo blue background is still largely unfaded and - unusual among eighteenth-century prints- the borders remain untrimmed on all sides.
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Onogawa Kisaburo was the young wrestler from Osaka who caused a sensation in Edo with his upset victory over the champion Tanikaze Kajinosuke in the second month of 1782, ending dramatically the latter's unbroken run of sixty-three victories. It was thisevent more than any other that made the Edo public sumo-mad in the late eighteenth century; it may also have prompted Shunsho to begin designing wrestler prints in that same year.Onogawa ranked in the lowly fifth grade of the junior division when he arrived from Osaka, but once in Edo his rise was meteoric: third grade of maegashira rank in 1781; second grade maegashira in the fall of 1783; sekiwake (the second to highest) rank in 1786; finally achieving the top rank of ozeki in 1789 and retaining this until his retirement in 1798. Since this portrait does not give Onogawa's rank, it cannot be more closely dated than about 1782-1786, the period during which Shunsho designed wrestler prints.Onogawa is dressed in street clothes- a purple-striped cotton kimono and long black haori jacket-and is accompanied by an attendant carrying a bundle. In his hand is a folding fan, suggesting that it is summer, and the towel around his shoulders may indicate that the pair are returning from a tournament. Showing a wrestler in street clothes was perhaps analogous to showing actors backstage. The difference in height between the two figures emphasizes Onogawa's imposing size, and in comparison with the attendant's coarse features (the beard seems to be painted in by hand), the wrestler's broad, smooth face looks positively handsome. Indeed Onogawa seems to have attracted the romantic attentions of many female fans by his resemblance to the contemporary Kabuki heartthrob Ichikawa Monnosuke II. A year after his defeat of Tanikaze, Onogawa married a geisha called Yae from the Yoshiwara pleasure district. He was even featured as a character in a Kabuki play.The indigo blue background is still largely unfaded and - unusual among eighteenth-century prints- the borders remain untrimmed on all sides.
Context
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Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E19864.TIF
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AIC_.E19864.TIF
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