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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: Ippitsusai Buncho Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Japanese; fl. c.1755-1790 Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Name-CRT: Ippitsusai Buncho Title: The actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Yamaoka no Saburo in 'Momiji Kumo Nishiki no Tsuri Yogi', (Maple Clouds: A Brocade of Coverlets Hung Up), act three of the play Kausara Hanasakae Hachi no Ki (The EverBlooming Potted Tree) Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1755 Creation End Date: 1790 Creation Date: unknown Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Hosoban; 32.7 x 15.2 cm (untrimmed) Inscriptions: SIGNATURE: Ippitsusai Buncho gaARTIST'S SEAL: Mori uji AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1925.2532 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: In this print we see the stage set for a mapleviewing scene, with a striped curtain hanging from one of the trees to create a private enclosure. Several other prints by Buncho show a similar setting, and all relate to a mapleviewing dance interlude, 'Momiji Kumo Nishiki no Tsuri Yogi', performed in the third act of the play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki. The dance, basically a duet between Ichikawa Yaozo II as the warrior Hojo Tokiyori and Segawa Kikunojo II as the courtesan Tamagiku, with onstage musical accompaniment by the chanter Tokiwazu Moji-tayu, is depicted in another hosoban print by Buncho (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 8. 1, p.64). Nakazo I played what appears to have been a supporting role as the servant Yamaoka no Saburo. Theatrical records describe his costume as a 'stiff white hunting cloak and court hat' (sh1rahari eboshi); an illustration in an actor critique (yakusha hyobanki) of the following year shows Nakazo I, seated with a wooden pail, wearing thiscostume (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 8.2, p.64). The libretto for the play has not survived, so it is difficult to say exactly why Nakazo I is brandishing a demon mask in the air. We do know, however, that this demon mask was a Hojo family treasure which Tamagiku was trying to steal. A similar combination of themes - mapl-viewing party, beautiful women, and demons - occurs in the famous No play Momiji-gari (Maple Viewing), and this new Kabuki dance interlude of 1769 was probably a creative reinterpretation of that ancient drama.Since Nakazo I was much in demand for his remarkably sinister interpretations of villainous roles, it is likely that Yamaoka no Saburo was an evil character.As in so many eighteenth-century prints, the fugitive indigo blue pigment - used herein the sky and in the stripes of the curtain - has changed to a dull sand color. AMICA ID: AIC_.1925.2532 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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