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
Himuro (The Cavern of Ice) by the playwright
Miyamasu (1482-1556).
The Play - Himuro (The Cavern of Ice)
Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 55.
A Court official on his way back to the capital stops at Himuro-yama, the ‘Ice cave Mountain’, in Tango Province and there learns from an old man how the ice, which forms in sheltered spots, is preserved throughout the summer and served then to the Emperor. The old man disappears into the cave, but a little later a goddess comes and dances, and then the god appears in his true form with a gift of ice for the Emperor.
One of Thirteen Prints from The Lavenberg Collection
loaned to the Portland Art Museum for the
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #707 |
| Title | Himuro 氷室 (The Cavern of Ice)
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| 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)
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Signature
| Kōgyo
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| Seal | |
| Date | 1925-1930
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| Edition | unknown
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| Publisher | Seibi Shoten (or Seibi Shoin), Tokyo |
| Carver | Uchida Eikichi |
| Printer | Yoshida Takesaburō |
| Impression | excellent
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| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - full size and not backed; several spots of foxing
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| Genre | ukiyo-e |
| Miscellaneous |
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| Format | oban yoko-e |
| H x W Paper | 10 x 14 1/2 in. (25.4 x 36.8 cm) |
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