Scene from the kabuki play 'Chōchidori Soga no jitsuden' 蝶千鳥曽我実伝 - 1874 - Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) - Japon - Période Edo (1600–1868)
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Hour of the Snake 巳 - Kabuki actor Ōnoe Kikugorō V as Benten Kozō - From 'Mitate jūniji no uchi' - Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) - Japon - Période Edo (1600–1868)
Nº 84158397
Hour of the Snake 巳 - Kabuki actor Ōnoe Kikugorō V as Benten Kozō - From 'Mitate jūniji no uchi' - Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) - Japon - Période Edo (1600–1868)
Good condition.
Sheet from a triptych. See Digital Collections of Keio University Libraries: https://dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/bon-ukiyoe/017/496
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Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese: 豊原 国周; 30 June 1835 – 1 July 1900) was a Japanese woodblock print artist. Talented as a child, at about thirteen he became a student of Tokyo's then-leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada. His deep appreciation and knowledge of kabuki drama led to his production primarily of yakusha-e, which are woodblock prints of kabuki actors and scenes from popular plays of the time.
An alcoholic and womanizer, Kunichika also portrayed women deemed beautiful (bijinga), contemporary social life, and a few landscapes and historical scenes. He worked successfully in the Edo period, and carried those traditions into the Meiji period. To his contemporaries and now to some modern art historians, this has been seen as a significant achievement during a transitional period of great social and political change in Japan's history.
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