Katsukawa Shunsho / The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen... / Edo period, 1783

Katsukawa Shunsho
The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen...
Edo period, 1783
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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: The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen...
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Creation Start Date: 1783
Creation End Date: 1783
Creation Date: Edo period, 1783
Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan
Object Type: Prints
Classification Term: Woodblock
Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print.
Dimensions: Hosoban diptych; (right) 32.9 x 15.0 cm; (left) 32.9 x 15.2 cm
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE Shunsho-ga
AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 1938.491
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection
Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html
Subject Description: The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen (left), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Princess Sakura (right) in the joruri 'Sono Omokage Matsu ni Sakura' (Vestiges of Pine and Cherry), from part two of the play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga (Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Soga), performed at the Nakamura Theater from the first day of the second month, 1783Gallery Label:Vestiges of Pine and Cherry is the story of the Monk Seigen who gets expelled from Kiyomizu Temple as a result of his passion for the lovely Cherry Princess, Sakura Hime. Reduced to bitter poverty, Seigen is murdered in a lonely country hut. The monk's ghost, Ichikawa Danjuro V, wears a close-fitting black suit painted to represent a skeleton as he continues to haunt Sakura Hime, played by Iwai Hanshiro IV, whom he blames for his fate. Sakura Hime's kimono forms swirling lines as she lifts one cherry-petalled sleeve in pathetic defense against her macabre suitor. A screen painted with autumn grasses and a crescent moon suggests the atmosphere of a lonely, desolate moor.
AMICA ID: AIC_.1938.491
AMICA Library Year: 1999
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999

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