Memorial Portrait of Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō I as Mashiba Hisayoshi (初代嵐橘三郎の真柴久吉（死絵）)
Memorial Portrait of Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō I as Mashiba Hisayoshi (初代嵐橘三郎の真柴久吉（死絵）)

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Memorial Portrait of Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō I as Mashiba Hisayoshi (初代嵐橘三郎の真柴久吉（死絵）),

1821 [Bunsei 4], 9th month

Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好齋北洲, active 1810–1832, Osaka, Japan
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2011-38

Information

Title
Memorial Portrait of Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō I as Mashiba Hisayoshi (初代嵐橘三郎の真柴久吉（死絵）)
Dates

1821 [Bunsei 4], 9th month

Maker
Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好齋北洲
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban tate-e format); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
sheet trimmed to block: 39 x 25.9 cm. (15 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.) mount: 44.3 x 31.2 cm
Credit Line
Museum purchase, The Anne van Biema Collection Fund
Object Number
2011-38
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Description

This is a memorial portrait of the actor Arashi Kitsusaburō I, who died unexpectedly in the autumn of 1820. His fellow actor, Nakamura Utaemon III, wrote the inscription in the print, recalling their meeting in the summer of 1820 and their plan for a combined performance.

Here Arashi plays the role of Mashiba Hisayoshi, who was the fictional name for the historical figure Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536–1598). The Tokugawa government did not permit plays about recent historical figures or incidents, so the fictional name was used here to evade government censorship.

Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
woodblock prints, osaka print school, prints
Materials
oban, color, ink, paper
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
actors, commemorations, performances, men, portraits, faces

– The Haber Collection (New York, NY).

–2011 Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2011.

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