About This Print

One of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays), it depicts a scene from the play Zegai by the playwright Takeda Hôin Sadamori (1421-1508).

The Play - Zegai

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 236.

Having had great success in winning adherents in his own country of China, the goblin king Zegai-bō comes to Japan in the guise of a priest and calls on Tarō-bō to guide him.  He advises him to direct his attention to Mt. Hiei where Buddhism is most strongly rooted, and this he does.  The head priest and his attendants are on their way to the Court when heaven and earth shake, and the voice of Zegai-bō is heard uttering heretical cries.  He appears and pits his powers against that of the priests, but finding that he is no match for them, he flees after being made to swear that he will never trouble Japan again.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#126
Title	Zegai 善界, 是界or 是我意
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 - minor wrinkling and soiling; slightly trimmed; not backed
Genre	ukiyo-e
Miscellaneous
Format	oban yoko-e
H x W Paper	10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Collections This Print	Scripps College, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery 2007.1.107
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