Art Institute of Chicago
Nakamura Utaemon I as Karashi Baba and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Shirotae
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川 春章LinkedCulture matchlcp-8fddf2a0c21e
- Date
- About 1769
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 21985
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The night sky provides a striking black backdrop for falling snow in this violent scene from the play The Ever-Blooming Potted Tree. Here, the old hag Karashi Baba is about to murder the defenseless Shirotae. This play, with its winter setting, was a popular Kabuki season opener performed in December.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Frederic May (1851–1918) Washington, D.C.; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, May 6–10, 1918, to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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