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 ÅŒuchi 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). ÅŒuchi's name in the red cartouche along with an embossed double arch complete the picture.
ÅŒuchi 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.
Hiroshige, The Lake at Hakone, c. 1833
from the series
Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road.
from the series
Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #869 |
| Title | Shibaraku (æš«) |
| Artist | ÅŒuchi Makoto (1926-1989) |
| Signature | Ōuchi M (in pencil) and 大内(Ōuchi) in image |
| Seal |  |
| 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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