Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章
Japanese, 1726-1792
The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô II (1689-1758)
INV-3568
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章
Japanese, 1726-17921788 (inscription 1829)
The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô II (1689-1758)
Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792 →Japanese (culture or style)hanging scrollpainting
Date
1788 (inscription 1829)
Medium
Hanging scroll; Ink and colors on silk
Dimensions
81.5 × 31 cm (32 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.); Overall with mount and knobs: 170.8 × 50.2 cm (67 1/4 × 19 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Frederick W. Gookin Collection
This work depicts the Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjūrō II (1689–1758) performing in a revenge play as Soga Gorō, the younger of two brothers. Here, he sharpens an arrow as he plots the death of the man who caused his father to commit ritual suicide (seppuku). Decades after the painting was completed, one of the actor’s descendants, Ichikawa Danjūrō VII, added an inscription of appreciation.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
Komurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gompachi (Miuraya Komurasaki, Shirai Gompachi)
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 Japanese, c.1753-1806
Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 Japanese, 1797-1858
