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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 Otani Hiroji III, probably as Ukishima Daihachi in the play Shinasadame Soma no Mombi (Comparing Merits: Festival Day at Soma) Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1770 Creation End Date: 1770 Creation Date: Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the twenty-third day of the seventh month, 1770 Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Hosoban; 31.4 x 14.0 cm Inscriptions: SIGNATURE: Shunsho gaARTIST'S SEAL: Hayashi in jar-shaped outline AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1925.2415 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: Hiroji III stands with legs braced wide apart, impassive in the battering storm. The fierce wind that drives the night rain slantwise against him has turned his large paper umbrella inside out. He wears the twin swords of a samurai, an over-kimono decorated with an auspicious interlocking circle pattern (shippo tsunagi), and high wooden clogs (geta). The identification of the role as Ukishima Daihachi in the play performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fall of 1770 comes from the handwritten inscriptionalong the right-hand side of this impression of the print. It is exceedingly rare for the name or role of an actor to be printed on a Katsukawa school hosoban print of about 1765-1795, and perhaps for that reason later scholars and collectors often addedhandwritten inscriptions of this kind. We do not know who made the identification here.Kabuki Nempyo's brief description of Ukishima Daihachi suggests an action-filled role involving fights for possession of a secret scroll belonging to the Tsumagoi Shrine, but mentions neither a rainstorm nor an umbrella. The only supporting evidence for the identification is a chu?ban print by Buncho, showing Hiroji III in this role (identifiable by his mon and from information in theatrical records) with the same unusually long hanks of hair behind his ears. In general, however, the form of Shunsho's signature and seal and the simple, vigorous figure style are consistent with a date of 1770.The positioning of signature and seal in the middle of the sheet suggests thatthis may well be the center sheet of a hosoban triptych. The colors of the print are strong and relatively unfaded. AMICA ID: AIC_.1925.2415 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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