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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.

Noh Performance of Fuji daiko, 1931 Copyright 1998-2008, Global Performing Arts Consortium. All Rights Reserved.

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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