Detail View: The AMICA Library: 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

AIC_.1939.927

1999

Prints

Katsukawa, Shun'ei

Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese

Japanese; 1762-1819 Asia,East Asia,Japan

Katsukawa Shun'ei

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

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full view

Edo period, 1790

1790

1790

Woodblock print.

Woodblock

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)

Asia,East Asia,Japan

Hosoban; 32.9 x 14.7 cm 12 7/8 x 5 3/4"

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, USA

1939.927

The Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Gookin Collection

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