Bando Tamasaburo V as Agemaki of the Miuraya 五世坂東玉三郎の三浦屋揚巻 / Okubie (Bust Portraits, Series III)
- Date:
- 1983
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- British Museum
Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
This 1983 woodblock print belongs to Kokei's third series of Okubie (bust portraits), a format he returned to repeatedly throughout his career. Bando Tamasaburo V appears as Agemaki, the leading courtesan of the Miuraya house in the kabuki play Sukeroku. Agemaki is the lover of the swaggering hero Sukeroku, and her role demands both visual magnificence and emotional warmth beneath the courtesan's polished exterior. The bust-portrait format — borrowed from Sharaku and the great Edo-period actor-print tradition — strips the composition to face, wig, and upper costume, placing all expressive weight on Tamasaburo's refined features and the ornate coiffure that signals Agemaki's status.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Bando Tamasaburo V as Agemaki of the Miuraya 五世坂東玉三郎の三浦屋揚巻 / Okubie (Bust Portraits, Series III) was created by Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪) in 1983.
Bando Tamasaburo V as Agemaki of the Miuraya 五世坂東玉三郎の三浦屋揚巻 / Okubie (Bust Portraits, Series III) depicts kabuki and portraits.
