print
- Museum number
- 1986,0707,0.8
- Title
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Object: Bando Tamasaburo V as Agemaki of the Miuraya 五世坂東玉三郎の三浦屋揚巻
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Series: Okubie (Bust Portraits, Series III)
- Description
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Colour woodblock print with powdered mica. Actor Bando Tamasaburo V as role of Agemaki in play 'Sukeroku'. 27/36. Inscribed and sealed.
- Production date
- 1983
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.70 centimetres
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Width: 27.20 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Smith 1994
This is printed on Hodomura paper from Tochigi Prefecture, made from 'ganpi' fibres, and the mica is applied over a pinkish-purple ground. In spite of the small edition Kokei, as always, defaced his blocks at the end of it so that the prints could not be revived. 'Sukeroku' is one of the eighteen plays in the canon of 'Aragoto' (Rough Stuff) dramas compiled by Ichikawa Danjuro VII (1791-1859) and is still performed today. The character shown here is the courtesan Agemaki (easily identified by her elaborate hair-style bristling with combs) who is rescued from a brutal old client by the chivalrous Sukeroku. Agemaki spends much of the action under the influence of sake which she uses to forget her unhappy lot. The whole action of the play is related in detail in Halford, Aubrey and Giovanna, 'The Kabuki Handbook', Tuttle, Rutland, Vermont, and Tokyo, 1956 (11th edn, 1979). The actor Bando Tamasaburo was born in 1950 and in his prime for playing young women at the time of this print.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 Jun – Oct, BM Japanese Galleries, ‘Japan from prehistory to the present’
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Sukeroku
- Acquisition date
- 1986
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1986,0707,0.8