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Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Gorō
Katsukawa ShunkōLinkedCulture matchlcp-5727ea142c9f
- Date
- 1779
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 101856
Some Kabuki plays centered on the legend of the Soga brothers, Gorō and Jurō, who avenge their father’s murder before coming to their own demise. The setting is near Mount Fuji, part of which appears in the background. The print is likely from a diptych (a composition of two prints). The other print would have shown the rest of the mountain and Gorō’s retainer (a person retained by another to act in a military capacity), Asahina Saburō, tugging at the same pine bough as Gorō—a twist on scenes in which Saburō pulled Gorō’s armor to try to prevent him from protecting his brother.
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- Credit line
- Gift from J. H. Wade
- Provenance
- Hayashi Tadamasa | Minamoto (seal on verso) | (Yamanaka & Co., sold to Jeptha H. Wade II) | ?–1920: Mr. Jeptha Homer Wade II [1857–1926], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1920–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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