Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Nidaruma no ichiku, a striking okubi-e [bust-portrait] of the kabuki actor Nakamura Utaemon IV (1798 - 1852) as Daruma drawn with broad sweeping brush strokes as though painted on a scroll, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi fude [painted], published by Ibaya Sensaburo, censors' seals Mera and Murata
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出版

Robert Schaap, Heroes and Ghosts (Amsterdam, 1998), no.172

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拍品專文

Although at first glance a depiction of Daruma, this print is another product of the Tempo reforms, when depictions of actors were forbidden. The rules were however being blatantly flouted as this print actually alludes to a performance by Nakamura Utaemon IV (here disguised as Daruma) in 1848 of the play Takagi Oriemon budojitsuroku.
This print is done to imitate a hanging scroll [kakemono] and Robert Schaap notes that it may have been a cheap alternative for one.1

1. Robert Schaap, Heroes and Ghosts (Amsterdam, 1998), p.161