Title
Actor Sawamurra Tanosuke III as the nun Seigen
1863
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Actor Sawamura Tanosuke in the role of Seigen Ama
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1863
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 25.6 cm
- Signature & date
Signed: Nanajû hassai Toyokuni hitsu [painted by 78 year old Toyokuni]
- Credit
- Gift of Dr. James Hayes 2009
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 250.2009
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Utagawa Kunisada/Toyokuni III
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About
Print designers often reprised popular designs in order to keep up with demand. It is estimated that Kunisada’s studio produced 15 000 designs comprising 25 000 individual sheets, making him a staggeringly prolific designer. This print, depicting the actor Sawamura Tanosuke III (1845–78) in the role of the nun Seigen, is a reworking of an earlier design from 1852. It can be surmised from other published prints depicting Sawamura Tanosuke III in the same role that the play referred to here is 'Shirokurenai sakura no goshozome', which was performed at the Nakamura theatre in Edo in the third month of 1863. As is typical of other representations, the nun Seigen is portrayed with a tattered black outer robe and a straw hat.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, September 2011
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
One hundred flowers (2011), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Sep 2011–15 Jan 2012