Kunisada • 演员对图 • 双框 • 1860 • 日本木版画 - 日本 - Edo Period (1600-1868)





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卖家的描述
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞,署名为 Toyokuni III 三代豊国(1786–1865)
Series: The 1860 "Actor Pairs"
Sheet: No. 11 (十一, lower centre)
Technique: Nishiki-e on washi
Format: Ōban yoko-e
Date: 1860 (Man'en 1 / Year of the Monkey)
Genre: Yakusha-e (actor portraits)
Roles depicted: Right — a stern male townsman role, read as Aragorō Mohei; Left — an onnagata as Osono (a wife role)
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Paper & condition
Two half-length portraits sit within a richly patterned "brocade" surround printed to imitate a padded fabric frame — one of the most decorative conceits of Kunisada's late career. On the right, a grim-faced male role with shaven blue pate and a bold striped robe over a red under-kimono; on the left, an elegant onnagata raising a slender pipe, hair dressed with lacquered combs and a yellow bar-kanzashi, the black outer kimono scattered with maple leaves and wave-patterned silk beneath. Each figure is accompanied by a cursive haiku and a red title cartouche. The printing is deliberately lavish: burnished shōmenzuri gives sheen to the dark passages, soft bokashi models a shadow inside the frame, and the whole sheet shows the high finish that marks the best work of this date. Colour and impression present fresh and strong, with the deluxe burnishing intact. Album backing.
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About the series
This is a sheet from a comparatively rare and little-documented set of paired actor portraits Kunisada designed in 1860. Its format takes its cue from his celebrated 1835 illustrated book Thirty-Six Flowers of the Acting Profession (a copy of which is in the British Museum), where actor likenesses are set beside haiku in cursive script. Here that idea is developed into a padded double-frame, each portrait a self-contained jewel; some of the actors in the series are shown posthumously, in roles Kunisada himself never saw them play, giving the set the character of an affectionate history of the Edo stage.
卖家故事
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞,署名为 Toyokuni III 三代豊国(1786–1865)
Series: The 1860 "Actor Pairs"
Sheet: No. 11 (十一, lower centre)
Technique: Nishiki-e on washi
Format: Ōban yoko-e
Date: 1860 (Man'en 1 / Year of the Monkey)
Genre: Yakusha-e (actor portraits)
Roles depicted: Right — a stern male townsman role, read as Aragorō Mohei; Left — an onnagata as Osono (a wife role)
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Paper & condition
Two half-length portraits sit within a richly patterned "brocade" surround printed to imitate a padded fabric frame — one of the most decorative conceits of Kunisada's late career. On the right, a grim-faced male role with shaven blue pate and a bold striped robe over a red under-kimono; on the left, an elegant onnagata raising a slender pipe, hair dressed with lacquered combs and a yellow bar-kanzashi, the black outer kimono scattered with maple leaves and wave-patterned silk beneath. Each figure is accompanied by a cursive haiku and a red title cartouche. The printing is deliberately lavish: burnished shōmenzuri gives sheen to the dark passages, soft bokashi models a shadow inside the frame, and the whole sheet shows the high finish that marks the best work of this date. Colour and impression present fresh and strong, with the deluxe burnishing intact. Album backing.
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About the series
This is a sheet from a comparatively rare and little-documented set of paired actor portraits Kunisada designed in 1860. Its format takes its cue from his celebrated 1835 illustrated book Thirty-Six Flowers of the Acting Profession (a copy of which is in the British Museum), where actor likenesses are set beside haiku in cursive script. Here that idea is developed into a padded double-frame, each portrait a self-contained jewel; some of the actors in the series are shown posthumously, in roles Kunisada himself never saw them play, giving the set the character of an affectionate history of the Edo stage.

