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The Actor Yamamura Ichitaro as Oichi in the play "Totsusaka-no-jo Tsuru no Sugomori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1721 by Torii Kiyotomo — Japanese Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e, 1721

The Actor Yamamura Ichitaro as Oichi in the play "Totsusaka-no-jo Tsuru no Sugomori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1721

by Torii Kiyotomo

Date:
1721
Medium:
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

Description

A single standing figure, styled as a young woman with an elaborate coiffure of long pins, walks in profile carrying a round lidded lacquer container in one hand; a second circular vessel with a landscape motif hangs at the hem of the robe. The kimono is patterned in black, ochre, and burnt-orange tones with large circular family-crest medallions, set against a background of hiragana syllables in black cartouches and diagonal ruled lines suggesting a shop interior with stacked lacquer boxes and cups to the left. The palette is limited to black, ochre/yellow, and burnt-orange hand-applied over the black key-block outlines, consistent with the hosoban urushi-e format of this 1721 Torii Kiyotomo print depicting the actor Yamamura Ichitaro as Oichi.

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The Actor Yamamura Ichitaro as Oichi in the play "Totsusaka-no-jo Tsuru no Sugomori," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1721 was created by Torii Kiyotomo (鳥居清倫) in 1721.