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Nōga taikan, Fujidaiko

 

 Japanese Color Woodblock Print

Fujidaiko 富士太鼓

from the series Nōga taikan

by Tsukioka Kōgyo, 1925-1930


IHL Cat. #706

About This Print

One of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays) depicting a scene from the play Fujidaiko from an unknown author*.

* sometimes attributed to the playwright Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443)


The Play - Fujidaiko

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 32.

Hearing that a drum player named Asama had been called in to play at a seven-day concert before the Emperor Hanazono, another famous player named Fuji came up to the capital too.  Asama, resenting this, killed Fuji.  When the official has announced this, Fuji’s wife arrives with her daughter, having been much disturbed by a dream she has had.  Learning what has happened, she puts on her husband’s robes and, overcome with grief, strikes the drum which to her was the cause of her husband’s death.

Print Details

 IHL Catalog #706
 Title Fujidaiko 富士太鼓 (Fuji's Drum)
 Series Nōga taikan 能画大鑑 (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays or A Great Mirror of Noh Pictures or A Great Collection of Noh Pictures)
 Artist 
 Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
 Signature 
 Kōgyo
 Seal
 Kōgyo seal
 Date 1925-1930
 Edition unknown
 Publisher Seibi Shoten (or Seibi Shoin), Tokyo
 Carver Uchida Eikichi
 Printer Yoshida Takesaburō
 Impression excellent
 Colors excellent
 Condition good - full size and not bakced; several spots of foxing; light corner folds; light soiling
 Genre ukiyo-e
 Miscellaneous 
 Format oban yoko-e
 H x W Paper 10 x 14 1/2 in. (25.4 x 36.8 cm)
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