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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Katsukawa, Shunsho Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Japanese; 1726-1792 Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Name-CRT: Katsukawa Shunsho Title: 'Akutagawa.' Episode 6 of Ise Monogatori; no. 4 (ni) in Shunsho's series of illustrations Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1772 Creation End Date: 1773 Creation Date: c. 1772/73 Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Koban; 23.0 x 15.6 cm Inscriptions: SIGNATURE: Katsukawa Shunsho ga AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1928.984.4 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: 'A certain man' runs off with a court lady one dark night. As they pass the stream called Akutagawa, she sees dewdrops on the grass and asks him what they are. The hour grows late and rain begins to fall in torrents, so the man shelters his lady-love in a ruined storehouse while he stands guard at its entrance. But the storehouse is inhabited by demons, who devour the lady while thunder drowns her screams. In the morning when he finds her gone and surmises her gruesome fate, the distraught lover composesthis poem:Shiratama ka (When my beloved asked)nani zo to hito no ('Is it a clear gem,)toishi toki(Or what might it be?')tsuyu to kotaete (Would that I had replied,)kienamashi mono o ('A dewdrop!' and perished.)Shunsho dresses the eloping couple in ancient court costume - the woman in the many-layered brocade robes and the man in black lacquered hat (eboshi) and hunting cloak (kariginu) - with no obvious anachronisms of eighteenth-century dress. The lover carries his lady on his back as they flee, andboth look earnestly at the drops of dew drawn prominently on each curved blade of grass. The graceful green willow withes overhead add to the lyricism of the scene. In this sense Shunsho's Ise Monogatari illustrations appear generally faithful to the spirit and world of the original Heian-period novel; they do not belong to the category of parodies (mitate-e) of ancient themes that were so common in eighteenth-century ukiyo-e.Asano Shugo has shown that Shunso took the composition of this print from the Ise Monogatari published in 1748 with black-and-white woodblock-printed illustrations by Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1750). AMICA ID: AIC_.1928.984.4 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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