Katsukawa Shunsho / The actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an unidentified role / Edo period, Ca. 1785

Katsukawa Shunsho
The actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an unidentified role
Edo period, Ca. 1785
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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 Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an unidentified role
Title Type: preferred
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Creation Start Date: 1785
Creation End Date: 1785
Creation Date: Edo period, Ca. 1785
Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan
Object Type: Prints
Classification Term: Woodblock
Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Part of a multisheet print
Dimensions: Hosoban; 32.7 x 14.6 cm
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE Shunko ga
AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 1928.310
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection
Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html
Subject Description: Ichikawa Monnosuke II stands leaning forward, probably toward a figure on the next sheet of the diptych or triptych, his right arm held straight out from the shoulder and the hand brandishing a branch of autumn maple. His other hand grips the hilt of hissword. The background, patterned with bands of horizontal blue lines, is probably a curtain drawn across the stage between scenes.The colors of Monnosuke II's costume are brilliant and unfaded. His over-kimono is decorated with notched circles (representing snow) and dwarf bamboo leaves over a background of vertical stripes, and the actor has shrugged off the top of that robe to reveal a white kimono underneath, patterned with fern fronds and 'Genji emblems' (Genji ko).The Genji emblem on his robes suggests that Monnosuke II is enacting a member of the Genji clan in a historical play, possibly Otokoyama Furisode Genji (Genji in Long Sleeves at Mt. Otoko), performed at the Kiri Theater in the eleventh month of 1785. ('The Actor's Image', 1994)
AMICA ID: AIC_.1928.310
AMICA Library Year: 1999
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999

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