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| Kunichika,"Ichiharano-no-dannmari(Kabuki Theatre painting)",Exquisite Triptych |
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| Item No | #108000400 |
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| Item | Ukiyo-e(Actor) |
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| Artist | Toyohara Kunichika |
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| Price | $400.00 |
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| Weight | 0.03kg |
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| | 73cm 28 3/4" | | | 35cm 13 3/4" |
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Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) was a Japanese artist who worked successfully in both the Edo and Meiji eras. He had an in-depth appreciation and knowledge of Kabuki drama, and specialized in the ukiyo-e and actor-print genre.
He is known primarily for yakusya-e or "actor prints". He is recognized one of the most famous artists of this period in line with Tsukioka Yoshitoshi for historical ukiyo-e prints and Kobayashi Kiyochika for landscape woodblock prints.
Kunichika is considered one of the last ukiyo-e masters. He was unique in that his output straddles the old and the new (Edo to Meiji eras) as represented by his classical subject matter and his use of modern (Western) materials.
His stormy life experiencing change of addresses for more than 110 times and 40 marriages is well reflected in his artworks. He gained his popularity with yakusha-e's ookubi prints focusing on an actor's head and upper body deploying dramatic use of colors and decadant facial expressions.
The program of Kabuki drama depicted here is called "Ichihara-no-Danmari". This artwork was created in April, 1883. "Danmari" is one of the acting teqniques where actors perform on the stage without words and express the story or emotions by facial expressions or body languages.
At the night of full moon, when Hirai Yasumasa (in the center), a subordinate of Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu, a Japanese legendary warrior in the 10th Century, was playing the flute, a robber called Hirai Yasumasa(in the left) was watching him and he attacked Yasumasa weilding a sword with an attempt to kill him. However, Yasumasa defended himself with a flute from this attack. In the following scene, another assasin, Kidomaru (in the right) hiding himself under a cow leather approached him.
When Yasumasa felt murder in the air and warded himself off the attack, the moon was suddenly covered by the cloud and it became dark. Yasumasa and the assassins searched each other in the dark and finally Yasumasa escaped from their attacks. This scene is played by Danmari.
This artwork is an outstandingly beautiful woodblock print created with exquisite craftsmanship. Although popularity of woodblock prints was on the decline at the time of its production, the level of craftsmanship was nearly culminating. This artwork is one of the best woodblock prints from that time.
Names of the roles are written in the upper right or left boxes in each print.
Good impression, colors and condition
Some holes |
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