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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 actors Sawamura Sojuro II and Ichimura Kichigoro in unidentified roles 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; 30.9 x 14.7 cm Inscriptions: SIGNATURE: Ippitsusai Buncho gaARTIST'S SEAL: Mori uji AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1925.2529 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: Ichimura Kichigoro, dressed in a blue long-?sleeved kimono under a pink kamishimo (formal dress of a male aristocrat, comprising wide-?shouldered surcoat and wide-?legged, extra?long trousers), kneels with a writing set in front of him, holding a large writing brush primed with ink. He is watched by Sawamura Sojuro II, who stands behind him leaning on his long sword. On the free-?standing single-?panel screen (tsuitate) is the character dai ('big') above a landscape of a red plum tree in blossom beside ameandering stream. Sojuro II is wearing a striped kimono with a pattern of plum blossoms (ume), and it is tempting to identify him as Umeo-?maru in the play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (Sugawara's Secrets of Calligraphy). In the eighth month of 1768, at the Ichimura Theater, Kichigoro played Prince Tokiyo in a 'Sugawara' play, but in that production Sojuro II played not Umeo-maru but Matsuo-?maru,Umeo-?maru's elder brother, whose costume would have been decorated with pines (matsu). Identification of the present print will have to await further study of Kabuki records.Buncho's composition is most elegant, the inward arch of the standing figure counterbalanced by the outward curve of the kneeling figure's long sleeve. The expressions are typically enigmatic; the two young men may be glancing conspirato?rially around to be sure the calligraphy is being written unobserved.Though the purple and red pigments are strong and unfaded, the indigo blue of Kichigoro's kimono and of the background has modified to a light sand color. Since the character kichi appears as a crest on Kichigoro's sleeve, the print must date before the eleventh month of 1770, when he succeeded to the name Bando Hikosaburo III. AMICA ID: AIC_.1925.2529 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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