Sakata Sajūrō I as a Samurai’s Manservant
Ippitsusai Buncho (Japanese, active c. 1755-90)
c.1770
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 31.2 × 13.9 cm (12 5/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The black sky in this image is a perfect backdrop for the weather. Here the driving rain pours down on a manservant who has just sliced in half the lantern hanging from the pine tree above him. As with many prints depicting Kabuki actors, we cannot identify the character or the play he comes from.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
