Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 90592

Soga Gorö at the Banquet of Wada no Yoshimori, from Soga Monogatari

Artist / 作者: Okumura Masanobu奥村政信
Date / 年代: 1740-1749
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
Digital record / 画像記録: 481 × 344 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Honolulu Museum of Art
Published by / 公開者: 黒川トウマ
Rights / 権利: No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記: Honolulu Museum of Art

Catalog note / 解説

This fine perspective prints has been attributed to Nishimura Shigenaga in the past. The scene depicts Soga Gorö at Wada no Yoshimori’s mansion. Asahina, his mon prominently displayed on his costume, bars the doorway to the right to prevent the youth from interrupting the banquet to attack his enemy Kudö Suketsune. (Howard A. Link, primitive Ukiyo-e from the James A. Michener Collection in the HAA, 1980) This print is typical of early Japanese perspective pictures in its recession into depth, which is determined by the arrangement of the architecture. The scene is from the revenge drama Soga Monogatari, with Soga Gorö at the left, attempting to enter the banquet of Wada no Yoshimori. (from…

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