Object Details
- Artist
- Shunbaisai Hokuei (active 1829-1837)
- Label
- Nakamura Utaemon III plays the commoner Konobei as the onnagata Nakamura Matsue III (Tomijuro II) performs a dance in the style of a shirabyoshi, a female performer who wears male courtiers' robes. Matsue III's poem on the right notes that this is a death-anniversary performance to honor Nakamura Matsue I (1742-1786):
- Though it is presumptuous of me,
- I offer this death-anniversary performance
- as a tribute to my ancestor:
- In memory of the deceased,
- the sounds of autumn sough
- through pines on the beach.
- Utaemon's poem on the left alludes to paper robes worn in kabuki plays by lovers reduced to poverty:
- The more they age
- the more auspicious-
- robes of paper.
- Translation of poems by John T. Carpenter
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection (September 15, 2002 to January 9, 2003)
- Credit Line
- The Anne van Biema Collection
- 1832
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- S2004.3.283a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Medium
- Ink, color, brass, silver, mica and embossing on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 37.3 x 51.5 cm (14 11/16 x 20 1/4 in)
- Origin
- Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- portrait
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- dancing
- poetry
- theater
- kabuki
- courtier
- Japan
- actor
- haiku
- ukiyo-e
- yakusha-e
- Japanese Art
- Anne van Biema collection
- diptych
- dancer
- Record ID
- fsg_S2004.3.283a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3a77e3966-73cf-4a6d-803b-62dc15374407
