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Lot Essay
published:
Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 30.
Hayashi Kyohei, "Torii Kiyoshige no 'Kusazuri bikizu' ema" (A votive panel painting by Torii Kiyoshige showing the 'Armor Pulling' scene from a Soga play), Azabu bijutsukan kenkyu kiyo/Bulletin of the Azabu Museum of Art 2 (autumn 1986), nos. 1-11.
Kikuchi Akira et al., eds., Kabuki ema (Kabuki votive paintings) (Tokyo: Waseda Univiersity Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum, 1986), pl. 59.
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 21.
As Hayashi Kyohei remarks in his essay on this panel, the painting represents the characters Soga Goro and Kobayashi Asahina in the "armor-pulling" scene of a Soga-brothers kabuki play performed in Edo at New Year's. The inscription on the reverse of the panel states that it was presented to a shrine by Ichimura Takenojo, manager of the Ichimura theater, at New Year, Kyoho 15 (1730). The crests on the costumes of the two figures indicate that the Goro role was played by Ichimura Takenojo IV and Asahina by Sawamura Sojuro I.
Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 30.
Hayashi Kyohei, "Torii Kiyoshige no 'Kusazuri bikizu' ema" (A votive panel painting by Torii Kiyoshige showing the 'Armor Pulling' scene from a Soga play), Azabu bijutsukan kenkyu kiyo/Bulletin of the Azabu Museum of Art 2 (autumn 1986), nos. 1-11.
Kikuchi Akira et al., eds., Kabuki ema (Kabuki votive paintings) (Tokyo: Waseda Univiersity Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum, 1986), pl. 59.
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), no. 21.
As Hayashi Kyohei remarks in his essay on this panel, the painting represents the characters Soga Goro and Kobayashi Asahina in the "armor-pulling" scene of a Soga-brothers kabuki play performed in Edo at New Year's. The inscription on the reverse of the panel states that it was presented to a shrine by Ichimura Takenojo, manager of the Ichimura theater, at New Year, Kyoho 15 (1730). The crests on the costumes of the two figures indicate that the Goro role was played by Ichimura Takenojo IV and Asahina by Sawamura Sojuro I.