Haze on a Clear Day at Stone Bridge (From the series Eight Elegant Views of Chanted Accompanimnets for Kabuki Plays)
- Date:
- early 1810s
- Medium:
- color woodblock print
- Source:
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Haze on a Clear Day at Stone Bridge, from the series Eight Elegant Views of Chanted Accompaniments for Kabuki Plays, dated about 1810 in the Cleveland Museum of Art's catalog, demonstrates how Kikukawa Eizan adapted the Eight Views convention to the urban entertainments of Edo. The series titles its eight prints after kabuki accompaniments — the chanted, musical, and percussive elements that organize the action onstage — and pairs each with one of the canonical Eight Views moments (autumn moon, evening snow, returning sails, evening bell, sunset glow, night rain, returning geese, and the haze on a clear day represented here). 'Stone Bridge' (Shakkyo) refers in turn to a famous kabuki and noh piece in which a lion dances on a stone bridge. The image is a triple mitate: Edo [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) conventions, the Eight Views landscape sequence, and the kabuki accompaniment cycle all collapse into a single sheet. Eizan's figure, with the elongated proportions and dense patterning of the Kikukawa school, replaces the canonical landscape with a posed beauty whose attributes evoke the named view. The play of layered references would have flattered print buyers steeped in both classical poetry and the contemporary kabuki repertoire. The Cleveland Museum of Art preserves the sheet as part of its substantial Eizan holdings; the record may be consulted at https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.720.
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Haze on a Clear Day at Stone Bridge (From the series Eight Elegant Views of Chanted Accompanimnets for Kabuki Plays) was created by Kikukawa Eizan (菊川英山) in early 1810s.
Haze on a Clear Day at Stone Bridge (From the series Eight Elegant Views of Chanted Accompanimnets for Kabuki Plays) depicts bridges.