Ukie nō kyōgen no zu (Perspective Picture of a Noh Performance)
Utagawa Toyoharu, Ukie nō kyōgen no zu (Perspective Picture of a Noh Performance), ca. 1770, color woodblock print on paper; yoko ōban nishiki-e, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.190
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- Title
Ukie nō kyōgen no zu (Perspective Picture of a Noh Performance)
- Related Titles
original language: 浮絵能狂言之圖
translated: Perspective Picture of a Noh Performance
transliterated: Ukie nō kyōgen no zu
- Artist
- Related People
collector: Hayashi Tadamasa (Japanese, active France, 1853-1906)
publisher: Nishimura Yohachi (Japanese, active mid-19th century)
- Date
ca. 1770
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; yoko ōban nishiki-e
- Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyoe shūka v. 9, pl. 93
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 9 7/8 in x 14 15/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
publisher's mark: 版元, printed in black, right margin Transliteration (Translation): hanmoto (publisher) Language: Japanese
publisher's mark: 永壽堂 西村屋, printed in black ink, lower right Transliteration: Eijudō Nishimuraya Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher Nishimura Yohachi, active c. 1751-1860
collector's mark: わか井おやぢ, stamped in red ink; relief seal, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Wakai oyaji (Old man Wakai) Language: Japanese Description: Seal of the Japanese collector Wakai Kenzaburō 若井兼三郎 (1834–1908).
collector's mark: 林忠正, stamped in red ink; relief seal, upper right Transliteration: Hayashi Tadamasa Language: Japanese Description: Seal of the important dealer and collector Hayashi Tadamasa (1853–1906), active mainly in Paris.
title: 浮繪能狂言之圖 （うきゑのうきやうけんのづ）, printed, upper right Transliteration (Translation): ukie nō kyōgen no zu (perspective picture of a noh (kyōgen) performance) Language: Japanese Description: Furigana appear to the right of the Chinese characters (kanji)
signature: 哥川豊春画, printed in black ink, right margin Transliteration (Translation): Utagawa Toyoharu ga (picture [by] Utagawa Toyoharu) Language: Japanese
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
- Accession Number
32.190
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
From Objects of Contact: Encounters between Japan and the West
Utagawa Toyoharu was famous for his perspective prints, in which he created dramatic spatial recession by adopting elements of Western-inspired, one-point perspective. Here he brings his talents to the depiction of an open-air theater performance. This is an especially fine impression that was once owned by two famous nineteenth-century collectors Hayashi Tadamasa (1853–1906) and Wakai Kenzaburō (1834–1908).
- Exhibitions
2005 Crowd Appeal: Impressions of Edo Japan Portland Art Museum
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
2012 Noh: Dance Drama of the Samurai Portland Art Museum
2020 Objects of Contact: Encounters between Japan and the West Portland Art Museum
