Ichikawa Shocho II as Oman
- Date:
- 1922
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Kotondo is best known for bijin-ga, but his complete oeuvre includes actor prints and other figure subjects. His small corpus of only 21 designs ensures that all authenticated period impressions carry collector interest and scarcity premiums.
Ichikawa Shocho II portrays the courtesan Oman, a role drawn from the kabuki repertoire. The onnagata tradition — male actors specializing in female roles — required both physical discipline and interpretive mastery, and Kotondo renders Shocho's performance with the precision of an artist trained in theatrical imagery. The Torii school had been the official printmakers of the kabuki world since the Edo period, and this early work demonstrates Kotondo's inheritance of that tradition.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ichikawa Shocho II as Oman was created by Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人) in 1922.
Ichikawa Shocho II as Oman was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1922).
Ichikawa Shocho II as Oman depicts kabuki.
