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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 Qualifier: Attributed to 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 actors Nakayama Kojuro VI as Osada Taro Kagemune (in reality Hatcho Tsubute no Kiheiji) in the guise of a lamplighter of Gion Shrine (left), and Sawamura Sojuro III as Komatsu no Shigemori (right) Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1785 Creation End Date: 1785 Creation Date: Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the first day of the eleventh month, 1785 Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Aiban; 34.6 x 24.2 cm Inscriptions: UNSIGNEDARTIST'S SEAL: Hayashi in jar-shaped outline AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1942.104 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: The actors Nakayama Kojuro VI as Osada Taro Kagemune (in reality Hatcho Tsubute no Kiheiji) in the guise of a lamplighter of Gion Shrine (left), and Sawamura Sojuro III as Komatsu no Shigemori (right), in act three from part one of the play Yukimotsu Take Furisode Genji (Snow-Covered Bamboo: Genji in Long Sleeves).The opening-of-the-season (kaomise) production at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month of 1785, Yukimotsu Take Furisode Genji, was set in the 'world' (sekai) of the twelfth century rivalry between the Taira and Minamoto (Genji) clans. Act three began with the three stars, Nakayama Kojuro Vl, Ichikawa Yaozo III, and Sawamura Sojuro III coming up through trapdoors dressed as pilgrims from Izu, Kamakura, and Kumano, respectively. The stage then revolved to reveal the precincts of Gion Shrine at night. Kojuro Vl reappeared wearing a straw headdress and carrying the oil jar of a lamplighter, the costume we see here. In reality he is Hatcho Tsubute no Kiheiji, in search of the precious white banner of the Genji, which has been hidden in one of the stone temple lanterns.The other character on stage is Komatsu no Shigemori, played by Sawamura Sojaro III, dressed in court robes and a black lacquered court hat (eboshi). He kneels holding a spool of red thread, whose end he has surreptitiously attached to the hem of the kimono worn by the suspicious-looking lamplighter in order to be able to follow him through the dark. Shunsho's print shows the actors' pose at the moment when Kiheiji realizes, to his fury, that he has been overtaken. Towering on high clogs over the kneeling courtier, he seems almost to be brandishing the oil jar as a weapon. Even the yellow straw of his headdress bristles angrily against the jet black sky.As described in Kabuki Nendaiki, the two were then joined on stage by Yaozo III as Evil Genta in an assassin's black kimono, and Otani Hiroji III as Namba no Jiro Tsuneto, wearing red body makeup and formal kamishimo robes. AMICA ID: AIC_.1942.104 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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