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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, Shunko Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Japanese; 1743-1812 Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Name-CRT: Katsukawa Shunko Title: The actor Yoshizawa Ayame IV as Yadorigi, the sister of Nikaido Shinanosuke, disguised as Orie, the wife of Aoto Magosaburo, in part two of the play Motomishi Yuki Sakae Hachi no Ki (Looking up at Falling Snow: Thriving Potted Trees) Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1778 Creation End Date: 1778 Creation Date: Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month, 1778 Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Hosoban, probably the right sheet of a diptych; 30.5 x 15.0 cm Inscriptions: SIGNATURE: Katsukawa Shunko ga AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1925.2478 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: Though quite severely faded - Ayame IV's purple kimono and the iris on the haori jacket have paled to a light sand color - this robust design shows Shunko's figure drawing at its most accomplished. The costumed figure of the actor fills the narrow hosoban sheet almost to its edges in a composition of broad, sweeping curves. Yadorigi's skirts fan out into an immaculate half-circle over the snow, and her snow-covered travelling hat forms a generous three-quarter-moon shape over her head.Snow scenes were derigueur in opening-ofthe-season (kaomise) productions, and this particular play was a variation on the ever popular Hachi no Ki (The Potted Trees). In Shunko's design Ayame IV as Orie is clearly leading something into the picture, and reference to the illustrated program (ehon banzuke) shows that this was an ox on which was seated her husband, Aoto Magosaburo Fujitsuna (played by Matsumoto Koshiro IV) (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 110.1, p.302). Kabuki Nempyo mentions that once on stage the couple had an amusing domestic quarrel. Possibly this was intended as a parody of the (serious) scene in Hachi no Ki in which Hojo Tokiyori, who has taken holy orders, is rebuked on religious grounds by a man with a horse. The horse is tired, but Tokiyori wants nevertheless to ride it through the snow to the village of Sano, where they will find lodgings. The horse's owner refuses, however, saying that a monk should have more compassion for an animal and should furthermore willingly undergo the austerity ofwalking through the snow himself.Whether or not this was the intended reference, the scene as played in 1778 was clearly colorful and comic. We can only regret that the left sheet of what was obviously a diptych, showing Koshiro IV on the ox, has yet to be discovered. AMICA ID: AIC_.1925.2478 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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