Bust Portrait Bando Tomisaburo V as Matsukaze- Design no 148
- Date:
- 1994
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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 1994 bust portrait shows Bando Tomisaburo V in the role of Matsukaze, the grieving salt-maker woman from a play adapted from the Noh tradition. Matsukaze and her sister Murasame are ghosts who haunt the shores of Suma Bay, eternally mourning the courtier Yukihira who loved and abandoned them. The role requires the actor to convey longing that has outlasted death itself — an ache refined by centuries of retelling into something approaching pure aesthetic emotion. As Design No. 148 in Kokei's extensive catalog, this print represents his mature approach to the bust-portrait form, the composition focused tightly on the face and the windswept suggestion of the coastal setting woven into Matsukaze's costume and expression.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Bust Portrait Bando Tomisaburo V as Matsukaze- Design no 148 was created by Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪) in 1994.
Bust Portrait Bando Tomisaburo V as Matsukaze- Design no 148 depicts kabuki and portraits.
