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Nōga taikan, Shakkyō

 

 Japanese Color Woodblock Print

Shakkyō 石橋

(Stone Bridge)

from the series Nōga taikan

by Tsukioka Kōgyo, 1926


IHL Cat. #800

About This Print

Number 160* of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays) depicting renjishi or the lion dance by two lions from the play Shakkyō sometimes credited to the playwright Kanze Motomasa (d. 1432).  This print still maintains its semi-transparent cover sheet providing information on the play and its characters.

* number appears in the lower right hand of the cover sheet.

cover sheet
click on image to see detail

Noh performance of Shakkyō Umewaka
(date unknown)
Courtesy of Karen Brazell; all rights reserved.
Copyright 1998-2006, Global Performing Arts Consortium. All Rights Reserved.

The Play - Shakkyō

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 158-159.
Characters
Act 1: waki - a priest; shite- a child; kyōgen - a hermit
Act 2: nochi-shite - a lion

A priest [the Monk Jakushō] goes to China to visit famous Buddhist places.  One day he is about to cross a stone bridge across a ravine when child appears.  He hears from the child that since the land on the other side of the bridge is the Paradise of the deity Monju Bosatsu [Monjusri Bodhisattva], even famous priests in olden times could only cross it after long and severe religious training.  Telling the priest that if he waits by the bridge he will see something wonderful, the child disappears.  After a while, a lion emerges and gambols and dances among the peony flowers - the king of beast enjoying the most majestic of flowers.  [Some productions use two or more lion dancers.]

One of Thirteen Prints from The Lavenberg Collection

loaned to the Portland Art Museum for the

Special Exhibition

NOH Dance Drama of the Samurai NOV 17, 2012 – FEB 24, 2013



Print Details

 IHL Catalog #800
 Title Shakkyō 石橋 (Stone Bridge)
 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 August 28, 1926
 Edition unknown
 Publisher Seibi Shoten (or Seibi Shoin), Tokyo
 Carver Uchida Eikichi
 Printer Yoshida Takesaburō
 Impression excellent
 Colors excellent
 Condition good - binding holes right side; several pin holes lower and upper right; not backed
 Genre ukiyo-e
 Miscellaneous print #160
 Format oban yoko-e
 H x W Paper 10 x 14 5/8 in. (25.4 x 37.1 cm)
 Collections This Print