Object Details
- Label
- In this print, which is the right print of a triptych, Nakamura Utaemon III appears, raising his truncheon against the character played by Ichikawa Ebijuro I in the left print (see S2004.3.261). He plays a kabuki policemen known as torite. The center print, which represents the actor Nakamura Tomijuro II (Matsue III) in the role of a courtesan, is not in this collection. The bold, patterned background, a common feature in Osaka actor prints, is rendered in reserve, and is based on the actor's family crest. A poem inscribed on the print, for Utaemon, praises Shikan, the actor's poetry name:
- Playing to packed houses,
- Shikan's dramatic stances
- are just so "arresting"
- that fans really feel
- "there's nowhere to escape!"
- Translation of poems by John T. Carpenter
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection (September 15, 2002 to January 9, 2003)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Shunkosai Hokushu 春好斎北洲 (fl. ca. 1802-1832)
- Date
- 1822
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- The Anne van Biema Collection
- Medium
- Ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 39 x 27.4 cm (15 3/8 x 10 13/16 in)
- Type
