YAKKOEDOBE - Top Quality Image Edition is a painting by Toshusai Sharaku which was uploaded on August 2nd, 2018.
Title
YAKKOEDOBE - Top Quality Image Edition
Artist
Toshusai Sharaku
Medium
Painting - Woodprint
Description
【TOSHUSAI SHARAKU】
「YAKKOEDOBE」
(Top Quality Image Edition)
『三代目大谷鬼次の奴江戸兵衛』 (1794)【最高画質版】
三世大谷鬼次の奴江戸兵衛(さんせいおおたにおにじのやっこえどべえ)
【Tōshūsai Sharaku】
(Japanese: 東洲斎 写楽; active 1794–1795) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known. His active career as a woodblock artist spanned ten months; his prolific work met disapproval and his output came to an end as suddenly and mysteriously as it had begun. His work has come to be considered some of the greatest in the ukiyo-e genre.
Sharaku made mostly yakusha-e portraits of kabuki actors. His compositions emphasize poses of dynamism and energy, and display a realism unusual for prints of the time—contemporaries such as Utamaro represented their subjects with an idealized beauty, while Sharaku did not shy from showing unflattering details. This was not to the tastes of the public, and the enigmatic artist's production ceased in the first month of 1795. His mastery of the medium with no apparent apprenticeship has drawn much speculation, and researchers have long tried to discover his true identity—amongst the dozens of proposals, some suggest he was an obscure poet, others a Noh actor, or even the ukiyo-e master Hokusai.
【東洲斎 写楽】
(とうしゅうさい しゃらく、とうじゅうさい しゃらく、生没年不詳)
江戸時代中期の浮世絵師。約10か月の短い期間に役者絵その他の作品を版行したのち、忽然と画業を絶って姿を消した謎の絵師として知られる。その出自や経歴については様々な研究がなされてきたが、現在では阿波徳島藩主蜂須賀家お抱えの能役者斎藤十郎兵衛(さいとう じゅうろべえ、宝暦13年〈1763年〉 - 文政3年〈1820年〉)とする説が有力となっている。
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August 2nd, 2018