COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
mediaCollectionId
AMICO~1~1
The AMICA Library
Collection
true
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1925.2385
amicoid
AIC_.1925.2385
AMICA ID
false
AMICA Library Year:
1998
aly
1998
AMICA Library Year
false
Object Type:
Prints
oty
Prints
Object Type
false
Creator Name:
Katsukawa, Shunsho
crn
Katsukawa, Shunsho
Creator Name
false
Creator Nationality:
Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
crc
Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
Creator Nationality
false
Creator Dates/Places:
Japanese; 1726-1792 Asia,East Asia,Japan
cdt
Japanese; 1726-1792 Asia,East Asia,Japan
Creator Dates/Places
false
Creator Name-CRT:
Katsukawa Shunsho
crt
Katsukawa Shunsho
Creator Name-CRT
false
Title:
The actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV in the role of an Immortal Hermit (sennin), possibly Tenjiku Tokubei in the play Tenjiku Tokubei Kokyo no Torikaji (Tenjiku Tokubei Turns the Helm Toward Home)
otn
The actor Ichikawa Danjuro IV in the role of an Immortal Hermit (sennin), possibly Tenjiku Tokubei in the play Tenjiku Tokubei Kokyo no Torikaji (Tenjiku Tokubei Turns the Helm Toward Home)
Title
false
Title Type:
preferred
ott
preferred
Title Type
false
View:
full view
rid
full view
View
false
Creation Date:
Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1768
oct
Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1768
Creation Date
false
Creation Start Date:
1768
ocs
1768
Creation Start Date
false
Creation End Date:
1768
oce
1768
Creation End Date
false
Materials and Techniques:
Woodblock print.
omd
Woodblock print.
Materials and Techniques
false
Classification Term:
Woodblock
clt
Woodblock
Classification Term
false
Creation Place:
Asia,East Asia,Japan
ocp
Asia,East Asia,Japan
Creation Place
false
Dimensions:
Hosoban; 32.8 x 15.4 cm
met
Hosoban; 32.8 x 15.4 cm
Dimensions
false
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
oon
The Art Institute of Chicago
AMICA Contributor
false
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
oop
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Owner Location
false
ID Number:
1925.2385
ooa
1925.2385
ID Number
false
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection
ooc
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection
Credit Line
false
Inscriptions:
SIGNATURE: Shunsho gaARTIST'S SEAL: Hayashi in jar-shaped outline
oin
SIGNATURE: Shunsho gaARTIST'S SEAL: Hayashi in jar-shaped outline
Inscriptions
false
Rights:
orl
<a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html"target="_new">http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html</a>
Rights
false
Context:
With his mane of unkempt hair, rough-hewn staff, and preternaturally long toenails, Danjuro IV certainly looks the Immortal Hermit, and scholars have not hesitated to identify the role as Ki no Natora in the opening-of-the-season (kaomise) production at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month of 1765. Kabuki records do indeed describe Danjuro IV making his entrance in this production dressed as a mountain hermit. Contradicting this identification, however, are illustrations in the actor critiques published the following years and a print by Buncho - all of which show Danjuro IV as Ki no Natora wearing a different wig and a costume with leaves around his shoulders and waist (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 28.1, p.107).By the form of the signature - Shunsho ga in large, bold characters; and by the formula used for the background, in which a small, stylized white band of mist hovers at the top center of the (faded) indigo blue ground. In the eighth month of 1768 Danjuro IV appeared as Tenjiku Tokubei, a Japanese sea captain who learned supernatural skills in India, in the play Tenjiku Tokubei Kokyo no Torikaji at the Nakamura Theater. The early plot of the story is not known, but in nineteenth-century versions Tokubei was able to take on the form of a giant toad to escape his enemies. In this print Danjuro IV's appearance as an Immortal Hermit with a staff may be intended to suggest that he has come from the far-off and exotic land of India and possesses magical skills. A definite identification, however, will have to await further evidence.The colors of the present impression are severely faded: the indigo blue background and 'streaked' (sujiguma) blue face makeup are now sand-colored, and the originally purple (?) baggy trousers have faded to brown. In another impression in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, these trousers are printed in dark gray.
cxd
With his mane of unkempt hair, rough-hewn staff, and preternaturally long toenails, Danjuro IV certainly looks the Immortal Hermit, and scholars have not hesitated to identify the role as Ki no Natora in the opening-of-the-season (kaomise) production at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month of 1765. Kabuki records do indeed describe Danjuro IV making his entrance in this production dressed as a mountain hermit. Contradicting this identification, however, are illustrations in the actor critiques published the following years and a print by Buncho - all of which show Danjuro IV as Ki no Natora wearing a different wig and a costume with leaves around his shoulders and waist (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 28.1, p.107).By the form of the signature - Shunsho ga in large, bold characters; and by the formula used for the background, in which a small, stylized white band of mist hovers at the top center of the (faded) indigo blue ground. In the eighth month of 1768 Danjuro IV appeared as Tenjiku Tokubei, a Japanese sea captain who learned supernatural skills in India, in the play Tenjiku Tokubei Kokyo no Torikaji at the Nakamura Theater. The early plot of the story is not known, but in nineteenth-century versions Tokubei was able to take on the form of a giant toad to escape his enemies. In this print Danjuro IV's appearance as an Immortal Hermit with a staff may be intended to suggest that he has come from the far-off and exotic land of India and possesses magical skills. A definite identification, however, will have to await further evidence.The colors of the present impression are severely faded: the indigo blue background and 'streaked' (sujiguma) blue face makeup are now sand-colored, and the originally purple (?) baggy trousers have faded to brown. In another impression in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, these trousers are printed in dark gray.
Context
false
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E19634.TIF
ril
AIC_.E19634.TIF
Related Image Identifier Link
false