Kotondo
- Date:
- Circa 1954
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
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.
A late kabuki print from Kotondo's restrained postwar output, the work depicts an actor in the full regalia of theatrical performance. As the fourth-generation head of the Torii school, Kotondo occupied a unique position — simultaneously an inheritor of the centuries-old tradition of kabuki imagery and a creator of modern bijin-ga that drew on entirely different aesthetic currents. This print belongs to the former tradition, rendered with the confident line of an artist for whom kabuki was familial territory.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kotondo was created by Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人) in Circa 1954.
Kotondo was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Circa 1954).
Kotondo depicts kabuki and portraits.
