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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, Shun'ei Creator Qualifier: Attributed to Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Japanese; 1762-1819 Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Creator Name-CRT: Katsukawa Shun'ei Title: The actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Sukeroku Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1793 Creation End Date: 1797 Creation Date: 1793 or 1797 (?) Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,Japan Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Woodblock Materials and Techniques: Woodblock print. Dimensions: Hosoban, part of a multisheet composition; 35.6 x 15.6 cm Inscriptions: UNSIGNED [printed "Shunsho ga" added] AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1937.27 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Clarence Buckingham Collection Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Context: Sukeroku is here played by Ichikawa Komazo III, who poses beneath a flowering cherry tree - probably in the main street (Naka no Cho) of the Yoshiwara pleasure district - holding a furled umbrella. This is probably the left-hand sheet of a triptych, whose other two sheets would show the courtesan Agemaki and Sukeroku's villainous rival, Ikyu?.Komazo III played the role of Sukeroku twice: Yorozuya Sukeroku (a reworking of the familiar tale in historical disguises by the playwright Sukurada Jisuke) at the Ichimura Theater in the third month of 1793, and Agemaki no Sukeroku (in a more standard version of the story) at the Kawarazaki Theater in the third month of 1797. Since the costume would have been the same in both productions, we can only know which performance this print relates to by discovering which actors were portrayed on the two missing sheets of the triptych.The print bears the printed signature 'Shunsho ga,' but Shunsho had died on the eighth day of the twelfth month, 1792. Either the signaturewas added later to the impression, or - assuming the print was published in the third month of 1793 - the publisher was deliberately capitalizing on the name of the recently deceased and highly esteemed artist. In any case, the elongated, elegant manner of drawing the figure and the particular style of drawing the face is typical of Shun'ei, to whom the print is attributed. An advance publicity handbill (tsuji banzuke) shows Komazo III as Sukeroku in the production of 1797 (see 'The Actor's Image' catalogue, fig. 130.1, p.347), holding aloft the open umbrella.The colors of the print are unusually strong and unfaded. AMICA ID: AIC_.1937.27 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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