Onoe Shoroku as Kudo Suketsune in the play
- Date:
- 1989
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
Onoe Shoroku portrays Kudo Suketsune in this 1989 woodblock print, a companion to the January portrait of the same actor in the same villainous role. Suketsune is the target of the Soga Brothers' famous vendetta, a powerful lord whose murder of their father set the revenge plot in motion. In kabuki performance, the villain must be imposing enough to justify decades of pursuit — a figure of genuine menace and authority, not a mere caricature of evil. Kokei returns to this subject to capture a different facet of Shoroku's performance, the same character revealed from another angle or frozen at another dramatic moment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Onoe Shoroku as Kudo Suketsune in the play was created by Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪) in 1989.
Onoe Shoroku as Kudo Suketsune in the play depicts kabuki.