Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 38784
Kuzunoha Fox
- Artist / 作者
- Toyohara Kunichika豊原国周
- Date / 年代
- 1898
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / honolulu
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 311 × 450 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 小春ユイ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
Like The Fox Spirit Tadanobu by Kunichika on display nearby, this work showcases the artist's talent for actor portraiture. As in Kunichika's depiction of Tadanobu, which is from the same series, deep red is used with precision to create eye-catching accents. The cluster of leaves in the upper left corner alludes to the meaning of the character's name, Kuzunoha, or "kudzu leaves." Found in the Kabuki play A Courtly Mirror of Ashiya Döman, first staged in 1735, the story of the fox spirit Kuzunoha is one of the numerous tales involving animal wives in Japanese mythology. Like Genkurö, this fox strives to repay generosity. A young man, Abe no Yasuna, releases a fox from a hunter's net only to…
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