Sawamura sōjūrō no soga no jūrō to ichimura takenojō no soga no gorō – Vintage Print
![Sawamura sōjūrō no soga no jūrō to ichimura takenojō no soga no gorō, Japan : Nakajimaya of Sakai-machi, [between 1726 and 1736] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2e/2e1a267852cc-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Sawamura sōjūrō no soga no jūrō to ichimura takenojō no soga no gorō, preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Sawamura sōjūrō no soga no jūrō to ichimura takenojō no soga no gorō
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Two kabuki actors, Sawamura Sōjūrō and Ichimura Takenojō, appear here in the roles of the Soga brothers, Jūrō and Gorō, in this narrow hosoban print. It is a lacquer print (urushi-e) from the 1720s or 1730s, when the Nakajimaya publishing house in Sakai-machi issued work of this kind. The Soga brothers avenged their father's murder in 1193 at a hunting camp at the foot of Mount Fuji, and their story was staged for generations. The record also lists hand drums and dance among its subjects, which suggests a performance rather than a single dramatic moment. The lacquer and powdered metal give the costumes and background a glossy, glittering surface that ordinary ink could not produce.
| Created / published | Japan : Nakajimaya of Sakai-machi, [between 1726 and 1736] |
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| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, hand-colored, lacquer, powdered metal ; 31.5 x 14.7 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Urushie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 5, p. 19. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Actors--Japanese--1720-1740. Dance--Japan--1720-1740. Hand drums--Japanese--1720-1740. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,616 × 4,454 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221861 |
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