Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 46904

Actor Ichikawa Omezō I

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Toyokuni I歌川豊国
Date / 年代: 1810
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / vam
Digital record / 画像記録: 1460 × 2000 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Victoria and Albert Museum
Published by / 公開者: 森川ミドリ
Rights / 権利: Commercial license required
Attribution / 表記: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Catalog note / 解説

This is a nishiki-e (brocade print), so called because its rich palette of colours is likened to nishiki or silk brocades. It is most likely the depiction of a production performed at the Morita-za Theatre in November 1810. The bold graphic stylisation and abstraction of form in prints such as this exerted a great influence on European artists. The South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) acquired a major collection of Japanese prints in 1886, making a large body of these images available to artists and a wider public for the first time. Materials: Woodblock print on paper

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