Saitō go Kunitake Tada no kurando Yukitsuna : Naruto no mae : Akugenta Yoshihira. – Antique Wall Art
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(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Saitō go Kunitake Tada no kurando Yukitsuna : Naruto no mae : Akugenta Yoshihira.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Saitō go Kunitake Tada no kurando Yukitsuna : Naruto no mae : Akugenta Yoshihira.
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Few prints of this period spread a single scene across four sheets, and this one shows the Naruto strait, the churning channel between Awa and Awaji where tides form large whirlpools. The setting belongs to the warrior tales of the Heian-period struggles that kabuki playwrights drew on constantly, with the actor Saitō Kunitake taking the role of Tada no Kurando Yukitsuna and Akugenta Yoshihira's name appearing in the title. Actor prints of the 1840s were sold to theater fans as keepsakes, and their bold color and tall format let the artist fit a whole stage picture into one view. Watch how the waves and tense poses run across the joins between the sheets.
| Created / published | [1847 or 1848] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (4 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 36.6 x 96.8 cm (whole image), 36.3 x 24.4 cm (far left panel), 36.3 x 24.7 cm (middle left panel), 36.6 x 23.2 cm (middle right panel), 36.3 x 24.5 cm (far right panel) |
| 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: Vertical Oban Nishikie tetraptych. 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, p. 62-63. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Kunitake, Saitōgo. Yukitsuna, Tada Kurōda. Yoshihira, Akugenta. Actors--Japanese--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,563 × 4,473 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221952 |
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