Kurando Yukinaga Saitō go Kunitake onnagyōja : Osada no tarō Nagamune. – Historic Reproduction
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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 Kurando Yukinaga Saitō go Kunitake onnagyōja : Osada no tarō Nagamune.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Kurando Yukinaga Saitō go Kunitake onnagyōja : Osada no tarō Nagamune.
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A three-sheet vertical composition, this woodcut is built around a female ascetic role, identified in its title as an onnagyōja, alongside a character named Osada no Tarō Nagamune. Prints like this were made in the late Edo period, around 1847 or 1848, when publishers produced multi-sheet actor portraits to show kabuki performers in dramatic costume and pose. The wide format let the artist combine the figures into one continuous scene across the sheets. Color woodblock printing of this kind relied on carvers and printers working from a designer's drawing, so the surviving impression reflects the skill of several hands at once.
| Created / published | [1847 or 1848] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (3 sheets) : woodcut, color ; 35.5 x 73.6 cm (whole image), 34.9 x 24.3 cm (left panel), 35.1 x 24.8 cm (center panel), 35.5 x 24.5 (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 triptych. Triptych in 3 sections: left (2214a), center (2214b), right (2214c). 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. 30, p. 64-65. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Ukinaga, Kurgōda. Kunitake, Saitogo. Gyōja, Onna. Actors--Japanese--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,596 × 4,526 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221947 |
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