Nakayama tomisaburō – Vintage Print
(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: Nakayama tomisaburō, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Nakayama tomisaburō
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This vertical oban color woodcut from 1796 portrays the Edo kabuki actor Nakayama Tomisaburō, and its record credits the designer as Kabukidō Enkyō (1749-1803). Actor prints like this one were a major commercial genre in Edo, sold to theatergoers who wanted to remember favorite performers, their stage roles, and the fashions they set. The print also reflects the close ties between the kabuki theaters and the woodblock publishers who made these likenesses, and it is a useful record of how actors were presented to the public in the 1790s.
| Created / published | 1796 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 34.4 x 23.3 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. No NAR. Lane: EnkyOo (1749-1803); Nakamura, KabukidOo, JOusuke. Catalog: Kabukid Enky" (1749-1803). Nichibunken: Kabukidō Enkyō." |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Oban Nishikie. Use electronic surrogate. 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. 2, p. 10. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Tomisaburō, Nakayama. Actors--Japanese--1790-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,593 × 4,399 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221888 |
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