About This Print

The artist's rendering of multiple scenes from the Kabuki play Shibaraku are presented to us like a 3-dimensional pop-up book.  The Ōuchi cube appears as it does in so many of his prints.  The hero Kamakura no Gongoro Kagemasa appears on the left page with the right page being composed of the female characters Katsura-no-mae and Taruha along with a Hiroshige-like mountain (see below).  Ōuchi's name in the red cartouche along with an embossed double arch complete the picture.

Ōuchi often paid homage to the great ukiyo-e print masters and here he does so again by appropriating a mountain from Utagawa Hiroshige's print The Lake at Hakone from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#869
Title	Shibaraku (暫)
Artist	Ōuchi Makoto (1926-1989)
Signature	Ōuchi M (in pencil) and 大内(Ōuchi) in image
Seal	大内誠 Ōuchi Makoto
Publication Date	1983
Edition	68 of 100
Publisher	self-published
Printer	self-printed
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	excellent - very minor mat burn
Genre	contemporary
Miscellaneous	artist has used a flecked paper.  The flecks are sometimes mistaken for foxing/
Format
H x W Paper	18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. (61.3 x 46.7 cm)
H x W Image	15 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. (54.3 x 39.4 cm) Area of Etching Plate
Collections This Print	British Museum 1995,1019,0.25
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