About This Print
Number 23* of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays) depicting a scene from the play Higaki by the playwright Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443.) This print still maintains its semi-transparent cover sheet providing information on the play and its characters. For another depiction of this play by the artist see IHL Cat. #996.
cover sheet
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* number appears in the lower right hand of the cover sheet.
The Play - Higaki
Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 54.
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* number appears in the lower right hand of the cover sheet.
Special Exhibition
NOH Dance Drama of the Samurai NOV 17, 2012 – FEB 24, 2013
The Play - Higaki
Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 54.Characters
Act 1: Waki - a priest
Shite - an old woman
Kyōgen - a local person
Act 2: Nochi-shite - the woman Higaki
A priest living in the mountains sees a very old woman come every day to draw water. Questioning her, he learns that she is the woman Higaki who long ago composed a poem on being asked for water by Fujiwara no Okinori. After asking for his prayers, the woman disappears. When she returns later, she tells the priest of her early life and performs a dance as she recalls the time when she danced for Okinori.
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Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #728 |
| Title | Higaki 檜垣 (Cypress Fence) |
| 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, seal no. 13, p. 170 in The Beauty of Silence: Nō and Nature Prints by Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927), Robert Schaap & J. Thomas Rimer, Hotei Publishing, 2010. |
| Date | July 5, 1926 |
| Edition | unknown |
| Publisher | Seibi Shoten (or Seibi Shoin), Tokyo |
| Carver | Uchida Eikichi |
| Printer | Yoshida Takesaburō |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent; a pin hole upper left of image; binding holes right side |
| Genre | ukiyo-e |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | oban yoko-e |
| H x W Paper | 10 x 14 3/4 in. (25.4 x 37.5 cm) |
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