COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
Collection
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AMICA ID:
AIC_.1937.27
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AIC_.1937.27
AMICA ID
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AMICA Library Year:
1998
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1998
AMICA Library Year
false
Object Type:
Prints
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Prints
Object Type
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Creator Name:
Katsukawa, Shun'ei
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Katsukawa, Shun'ei
Creator Name
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Creator Nationality:
Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
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Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
Creator Nationality
false
Creator Dates/Places:
Japanese; 1762-1819 Asia,East Asia,Japan
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Japanese; 1762-1819 Asia,East Asia,Japan
Creator Dates/Places
false
Creator Name-CRT:
Katsukawa Shun'ei
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Katsukawa Shun'ei
Creator Name-CRT
false
Title:
The actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Sukeroku
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The actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Sukeroku
Title
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Title Type:
preferred
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preferred
Title Type
false
View:
full view
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full view
View
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Creation Date:
1793 or 1797 (?)
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1793 or 1797 (?)
Creation Date
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Creation Start Date:
1793
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1793
Creation Start Date
false
Creation End Date:
1797
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1797
Creation End Date
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Materials and Techniques:
Woodblock print.
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Woodblock print.
Materials and Techniques
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Classification Term:
Woodblock
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Woodblock
Classification Term
false
Creation Place:
Asia,East Asia,Japan
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Asia,East Asia,Japan
Creation Place
false
Dimensions:
Hosoban, part of a multisheet composition; 35.6 x 15.6 cm
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Hosoban, part of a multisheet composition; 35.6 x 15.6 cm
Dimensions
false
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
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The Art Institute of Chicago
AMICA Contributor
false
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
Owner Location
false
ID Number:
1937.27
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1937.27
ID Number
false
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection
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The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection
Credit Line
false
Inscriptions:
UNSIGNED [printed "Shunsho ga" added]
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UNSIGNED [printed "Shunsho ga" added]
Inscriptions
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Rights:
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<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:
Sukeroku is here played by Ichikawa Komazo III, who poses beneath a flowering cherry tree - probably in the main street (Naka no Cho) of the Yoshiwara pleasure district - holding a furled umbrella. This is probably the left-hand sheet of a triptych, whose other two sheets would show the courtesan Agemaki and Sukeroku's villainous rival, Ikyu?.Komazo III played the role of Sukeroku twice: Yorozuya Sukeroku (a reworking of the familiar tale in historical disguises by the playwright Sukurada Jisuke) at the Ichimura Theater in the third month of 1793, and Agemaki no Sukeroku (in a more standard version of the story) at the Kawarazaki Theater in the third month of 1797. Since the costume would have been the same in both productions, we can only know which performance this print relates to by discovering which actors were portrayed on the two missing sheets of the triptych.The print bears the printed signature 'Shunsho ga,' but Shunsho had died on the eighth day of the twelfth month, 1792. Either the signaturewas added later to the impression, or - assuming the print was published in the third month of 1793 - the publisher was deliberately capitalizing on the name of the recently deceased and highly esteemed artist. In any case, the elongated, elegant manner of drawing the figure and the particular style of drawing the face is typical of Shun'ei, to whom the print is attributed. An advance publicity handbill (tsuji banzuke) shows Komazo III as Sukeroku in the production of 1797 (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 130.1, p.347), holding aloft the open umbrella.The colors of the print are unusually strong and unfaded.
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Sukeroku is here played by Ichikawa Komazo III, who poses beneath a flowering cherry tree - probably in the main street (Naka no Cho) of the Yoshiwara pleasure district - holding a furled umbrella. This is probably the left-hand sheet of a triptych, whose other two sheets would show the courtesan Agemaki and Sukeroku's villainous rival, Ikyu?.Komazo III played the role of Sukeroku twice: Yorozuya Sukeroku (a reworking of the familiar tale in historical disguises by the playwright Sukurada Jisuke) at the Ichimura Theater in the third month of 1793, and Agemaki no Sukeroku (in a more standard version of the story) at the Kawarazaki Theater in the third month of 1797. Since the costume would have been the same in both productions, we can only know which performance this print relates to by discovering which actors were portrayed on the two missing sheets of the triptych.The print bears the printed signature 'Shunsho ga,' but Shunsho had died on the eighth day of the twelfth month, 1792. Either the signaturewas added later to the impression, or - assuming the print was published in the third month of 1793 - the publisher was deliberately capitalizing on the name of the recently deceased and highly esteemed artist. In any case, the elongated, elegant manner of drawing the figure and the particular style of drawing the face is typical of Shun'ei, to whom the print is attributed. An advance publicity handbill (tsuji banzuke) shows Komazo III as Sukeroku in the production of 1797 (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 130.1, p.347), holding aloft the open umbrella.The colors of the print are unusually strong and unfaded.
Context
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Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E19819.TIF
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AIC_.E19819.TIF
Related Image Identifier Link
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