About This Print

One of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays) depicting a lion dance from the play Uchito mōde by the playwright Kongō Nagayori.

The Play - Uchito mōde

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 202.

To welcome an Imperial envoy who is making a pilgrimage to the Great Shrines of Ise a priest there first recites a prayer an preaches.  Then, in the second half of the play, a priestess performs a kagura dance and the priest a shishi-mai, a 'lion dance'.  Finally, the priestess dances again.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#127
Title	Uchito mōde 内外詣 (Visit to Ise Shrines )
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	excellent - minor trimming to vertical margin; light wrinkling; not backed
Genre	ukiyo-e
Miscellaneous
Format	oban yoko-e
H x W Paper	10 x 14 1/4 in. (25.4 x 36.2 cm)
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