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Ichikawa Danjūrō VII in a Shibaraku Role Confronting the Catfish Priest

1809 (Bunka 6), 11th month
Not on view
This painted and inscribed folding fan encapsulates the intersection of Kabuki and the literary salon culture surrounding kyōka (witty thirty-one-syllable poems) of early nineteenth-century Edo. A spontaneously brushed composition, it was no doubt created impromptu by a pair of artists and a pair of poets at a shogakai 書画会, or “calligraphy and painting gathering,” which were in great vogue in cities around Japan from the late eighteenth- through the late nineteenth centuries.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 歌川 国貞・昇亭北壽筆　「暫く」
  • Title: Ichikawa Danjūrō VII in a Shibaraku Role Confronting the Catfish Priest
  • Artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Japanese, 1786–1864)
  • Artist: Shōtei Hokuju 昇亭北寿 (Japanese, active 1790–1820)
  • Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
  • Date: 1809 (Bunka 6), 11th month
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Fan painting; ink and color on waxed paper, mounted on wood staves
  • Dimensions: Image: 6 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (16.5 × 44.5 cm)
    Fan: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Miki and Sebastian Izzard, 2021
  • Object Number: 2021.262
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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