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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Ippitsusai Buncho Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Japanese; fl. c.1755-1790 Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Name-CRT: Ippitsusai Buncho Title: The actor Sakata Sajuro I as a samurai's manservant (yakko) Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1768 Creation End Date: 1770 Creation Date: c. 1768/70 Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Hosoban, left sheet of a diptych; 31.2 x 13.9 cm Inscriptions: SIGNATURE: Ippitsusai Buncho gaARTIST'S SEAL: Mori uji AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1928.999 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: Sakata Sajuro I, in the role of a samurai's manservant, stands in a heavy night rain, brandishing the long sword with which he has just sliced right through the paper lantern hanging from the pine tree behind him. His striped kimono has been shrugged offhis shoulders, and a scarf is tied around his head. This is the left sheet of a diptych, whose right sheet shows Otani Hiroji III also dressed as a yakko and in a similarly powerful pose, holding an upturned sedge hat in one hand and clasping the trunk of a pine tree with the other arm (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 4.1, p.57).Sajuro I's 'alternative' crest (kaemon) was three squares topped by a line, visible here on his left sleeve. He appeared together with Otani Hiroji lII many times betweenI768 and his death on the third day of the fifth month, I770. Presently published Kabuki records do not mention either actor in such a scene in the rain at night. Identification of the play must await further evidence.It is sometimes said that Buncho excelled at depicting actors in delicate female roles, in contrast to his rival Shunsho, who was superior in portraying actors in male roles. This diptych certainly demonstrates Buncho's ability to create convincing images of muscular masculinity. AMICA ID: AIC_.1928.999 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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