COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1939.927
AMICA Library Year:
1999
Object Type:
Prints
Creator Name:
Katsukawa, Shun'ei
Creator Nationality:
Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
Creator Dates/Places:
Japanese; 1762-1819 Asia,East Asia,Japan
Creator Name-CRT:
Katsukawa Shun'ei
Title:
The actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in act three of the play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo (Yoshitsune's Koshigoe Petition), performed at the Ichimura Theater from the ninth day of the ninth month, 1790
Title Type:
preferred
View:
full view
Creation Date:
Edo period, 1790
Creation Start Date:
1790
Creation End Date:
1790
Materials and Techniques:
Woodblock print.
Classification Term:
Woodblock
Subject Description:
The Osaka actor Asao Tamejuro I appears as Gotobei, in a later moment of his drunken dance before Lord Yoshitsune in the play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo. Here he has hoisted a large bucket of sake up onto his back with a broom through the handle, perhaps inimitation of a manservant (yakko) carrying a travelling case in the entourage of a feudal lord. The red and black lacquered bucket bears Tamejaro I's acting crest-two parallel lines in a circle-painted on the handle.Once again Shun'ei has skillfully captured the actor's depiction of drunken buffoonery: his tongue lolling in his open mouth and his eyebrows raised in befuddlement. He has also not hesitated to show Tamejuro I's flabby torso, in what is clearly a later part of the dance, when Gotobei is moredeeply drunk and has discarded more of his clothes. ('The Actor's Image', 1994)
Creation Place:
Asia,East Asia,Japan
Dimensions:
Hosoban; 32.9 x 14.7 cm 12 7/8 x 5 3/4"
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1939.927
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Gookin Collection
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E19815.TIF
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