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The Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō V and Yamashita Kinsaku
The Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō V and Yamashita Kinsaku

The Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō V and Yamashita Kinsaku

Artist/Maker (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Date1780
MediumColor woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
DimensionsVertical aiban; overall: 12 9/16 × 8 7/8 in. (31.9 × 22.5 cm)
Credit LineMary A. Ainsworth Bequest
Object number1950.279
Status
Not on view
More Information
This scene comes from a play about the Soga brothers. The actor Ichikawa Danjūrō V (1741–1806), at the left, plays Kudo Suketsune, a villain who killed the brother’s father. He stands in a haughty fashion, leaning on his sword and gesturing with a folded fan. The woman to his left is the brothers’ mother, Mankō Gozen, here played by the actor Yamashita Kinsaku II (1733–99). She seems to have just taken a drink of sake from a bowl and looks away from Suketsune in distress. The play is Hatsumonbi kuruwa Soga, first performed during the first month of 1780.
Exhibition History
A College Collects: Japanese Prints from Oberlin College
  • Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (September 25, 1960 - October 15, 1960 )
  • Hollins College, Hollins, VA (November 5, 1960 - November 25, 1960 )
  • Public Library of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC (December 9, 1960 - December 29, 1960 )
  • Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN (January 12, 1961 - February 2, 1961 )
  • Port Arthur Service League, Port Arthur, TX (March 20, 1961 - April 10, 1961 )
  • University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (April 23, 1961 - May 15, 1961 )
  • Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (October 6, 1961 - October 26, 1961 )
  • Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (November 8, 1961 - November 29, 1961 )
  • State University of New York, Oswego, NY (January 14, 1962 - February 4, 1962 )
  • Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (March 23, 1962 - April 13, 1962 )
  • Wichita Art Museum, Wichitia, KS (September 6, 1962 - September 26, 1962 )
  • Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL (October 16, 1962 - November 6, 1962 )
  • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (November 20, 1962 - December 11, 1962 )
Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
  • Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (April 13, 2019 - May 25, 2019 )
  • Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan (June 8, 2019 - July 28, 2019 )
  • Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan (August 10, 2019 - September 29, 2019 )
Ukiyo-e Prints from the Mary Ainsworth Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 14, 2020 - December 6, 2020 )
Collections
  • Asian
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