Mitate Kagamiyama (A re-enactment of the play, Kagamiyama)
Utagawa Toyokuni, Mitate Kagamiyama (A re-enactment of the play, Kagamiyama), ca. 1801-1803, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e; triptych, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection, public domain, 32.352a-c
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- Title
Mitate Kagamiyama (A re-enactment of the play, Kagamiyama)
- Related Titles
original language: 見立鏡山
translated: A re-enactment of the play Kagamiyama
transliterated: Mitate Kagamiyama
- Artist
- Related People
- Date
ca. 1801-1803
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e; triptych
- Catalogue Raisonné
Graybill 2011, cat. 71
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
sheet: 14 7/8 in x 29 13/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: 岩ふし, printed in black and pink ink, center of center sheet Transliteration: Iwafuji Language: Japanese Description: Name inscribed on kimono of woman standing at the center of the composition, designating her as the senior lady-in-waiting, Iwafuji from the tale Kagamiyama.
inscription: 尾のへ松, printed in black and pink ink, center of left sheet Transliteration: Onoe Matsu Language: Japanese Description: Name inscribed on kimono of woman seated at left, designating her as the junior lady-in-waiting, Onoe from the tale Kagamiyama.
publisher's mark: 若, printed in black ink within lozenge cartouche, lower left of right sheet; lower right of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): waka ([seal of the publisher Wakasaya Yoichi 若狭屋与市]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm Jakurindō 若林堂 active ca. 1794-1897.
censor's mark: 極, printed in black relief within circular cartouche, lower left of right sheet; center of center sheet; lower right of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): kiwame (approval) Language: Japanese
signature: 豊國画, printed in black ink, lower left of right sheet; center of center sheet; lower right of left sheet Transliteration (Translation): Toyokuni ga (picture [by] Toyokuni) 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
32.352a-c
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- 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