Genzai Shichimen, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"
- Date:
- 1898/1903
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Genzai Shichimen is one of the rarer plays in the Noh repertoire, set on Mount Shichimen in Yamanashi and connected with the Nichiren Buddhist tradition. The play's title — genzai indicating a 'present-day' or non-phantom Noh — distinguishes it from the more common two-act mugen-nō structure. Tsukioka Kōgyo's depiction in Nōgaku Hyaku-ban (One Hundred Noh Dramas) provides one of the few accessible visual records of this seldom-staged play, exemplifying the encyclopedic ambition that drove his Noh-print project. Published by Matsuki Heikichi as part of the Nōgaku Hyaku-ban series (1922-1926, with earlier states dated 1898/1903 by the Art Institute of Chicago), the print depicts the shite figure with the careful attention to mask, costume, and stage property that has made Kōgyo's Meiji- and Taishō-era prints essential references for both scholars and active Noh performers. The sheet belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago's substantial holdings of Kōgyo's Noh work.
1898/1903
Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1943.833.42a)
1898/1903
Color woodblock print
1898
Color woodblock print
1898
Color woodblock print
Genzai Shichimen, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)" was created by Tsukioka Kōgyo (月岡耕漁) in 1898/1903.
Genzai Shichimen, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)" depicts theater.
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