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| Toyohara Kunichika, "Chinzei Yumiharizuki" |
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| Item No | #108003971 |
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| Item | Ukiyo-e(Actor) |
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| Artist | Toyohara Kunichika |
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| Price | $300.00 |
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| Weight | 0.01kg |
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| | 71cm 28" | | | 35.5cm 14" |
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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.
"Chinzei Yumiharizuki"means crescent moon; loaded or "pulled bow" [shaped] moon. A pictorial subject in ukiyo-e taken from the popular novel by Takizawa Bakin (1767-1848) and illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), published in 31 volumes, in five sets between 1807-1811. The story traces the life (highly romanticized) of the warrior Minamoto no Tametomo (1096-1156) through exile to Ooshima.
Kumakimi, well-known priestess in Ryukyu, present-day Okinawa, played by the actor Ichikawa Danjyuro shown in this work has just deprived a pre-born child. Swinging her hair and having a sword in her mouth and the child under her arm, she goes up against the stream showing her overwhelming strength. The child's brothers, Kame and Tsuru, who would revenge her later pretending a couple, are shown in the left. This scene is shown in the latter half of the novel describing the reconstruction of Ryukyu by Monamoto no Tametomo.
The right above shows,
"Chinzei Yumiharizuki Kabuki-za", title
"Kumakimi Ichikawa Danjyuro", acotor's name
The right below shows,
"Toyohara Kunichika", painter's name
Description shown in the left below shows,
Issued in November, 1897
Issued by Fukuda Kumajiro
Triptych
Width 71cm, Height 35.5cm
Slightly rubbed |
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