TOSHUSAI SHARAKU: oban tate-e (37.8 x 23.9cm.); an okubi-e portrait of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu as the Gion courtesan Onayo, from the play Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga, performed at the Miyako theatre in 5/1794, signed Toshusai Sharaku ga and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--very good impression, slightly faded and toned, small central hole restored and slightly retouched on the nostril and lip line, mica worn, cracked and small areas retouched, pink mica on the collar partly intact, upright edges slightly trimmed, upper portion with some soiling.

细节

TOSHUSAI SHARAKU: oban tate-e (37.8 x 23.9cm.); an okubi-e portrait of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu as the Gion courtesan Onayo, from the play Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga, performed at the Miyako theatre in 5/1794, signed Toshusai Sharaku ga and published by Tsutaya Juzaburo--very good impression, slightly faded and toned, small central hole restored and slightly retouched on the nostril and lip line, mica worn, cracked and small areas retouched, pink mica on the collar partly intact, upright edges slightly trimmed, upper portion with some soiling.

来源

Isaac Dooman, sold Walpole Galleries, New York, February 11-12, 1924, lot 247

出版

Yamaguchi Keizaburo, "Sharaku", Ukiyo-e Taikei, vol. 7 (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973), pl.2; Hillier, Jack Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, vol. 2 (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications Ltd., 1976), pl. 587, pp. 574-5; Keyes, Roger Sharaku, portraits d'acteurs 1794-1795 (Paris: Huguette Beres, 1980), no. 10; Kozyreff, Chantal Estampes Japonaises, Collection des Musees royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles (Gand: Snoeck-Ducaju and Zoon, 1989), pl. LXVII, cat. 487; Sato Mitsunobu Ukiyo-e meihin-ten (Yokohama: Hiraki Bijutsukan, 1993), no. 65, pp. 156-7; Yamaguchi Keizaburo Sharaku no zembo (Tokyo: Tokyo Shoseki, 1994), pl. 7, p. 14

拍品专文

This is one of the rarer mica ground okubi-e portraits. Keyes lists 17 examples, ten of which are held in the following museums: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels; Art Institute, Chicago; Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art, Genoa; British Museum, London; Guimet Museum, Paris; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco; National Museum, Tokyo; Hiraki Museum, Yokohama. [1]

The checked robe that distinguishes Onayo's costume was first popularized by Sanogawa Ichimatsu I (1722-62) and became known as Ichimatsu moyo in his honor. It became the standard costume for all succeeding actors of this part. In some later impressions of this design, for instance the example in the National Museum, Tokyo, a portion of the red block broke away at the small triangular shaped point on the right where the pink collar meets the under-kimono. In these copies this area remains white. [2]

1. Keyes (1980), no. 10

2. Yamaguchi (1973), pl. 2