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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: Katsukawa, Shunsho Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Japanese; 1726-1792 Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Name-CRT: Katsukawa Shunsho Title: The actor Bando Matataro IV as Gempachibyoe in the play Mutsu no Hana Ume no Kaomise (Snowflakes: Plum Blossom Kaomise) Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1769 Creation End Date: 1769 Creation Date: Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month, 1769 Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Hosoban; 31.6 x 14.2 cm Inscriptions: UNSIGNEDARTIST'S SEAL: Hayashi in jar-shaped outline AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1932.1008 Credit Line: The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: The short verse in white reserve against the faded blue background reads:Korede yabo nara (I may look boorish) Shokoto ga nai (but it can't be helped.)According to Kabuki records Gempachibyoe seems to have been a supporting character who appeared in at least three different guises: an official at a Shinto ceremony a runner for a messenger service (hikyaku) and a servant (yakko) who fights another servant with bales of rice straw. The costume does not establish which of these guises Shunsho is depicting but the poem seems to signify 'This may not be a very stylish disguise but I will triumph in the end.'Whatever the exact persona this is surely one of Shunsho's most powerful early designs full of barely controlled dynamism. All of the energy of the figure pours into the right arm which is locked in a defiant downward-pointing gesture a gesture echoed and reinforced by the lines of the right leg the scabbard and the soku mie pose of the legs. Even the face with its bright red 'streaked' (sujiguma) makeup is turned to scowl down the rigid line of the arm. A regular pattern of brilliant yellow spots is dazzling against the black costume and the printed white pigment of the kimono lining would have stood out much more prominently against the original unfaded blue background.Shunsho seems to have favored this strong pose of body and head turned in almost opposite directions since it appears in several of his early prints. It seems also to have been a conventional stage pose of the time. AMICA ID: AIC_.1932.1008 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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