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Nōga taikan, Tsuchi-Guruma

 

 Japanese Color Woodblock Print

Tsuchi-Guruma 土車

(The Wheelbarrow)

from the series Nōga taikan

by Tsukioka Kōgyo, 1925-1930


IHL Cat. #334

About This Print

One of 200 prints issued as part of the series ga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays), depicting a scene from the play Tsuchi-Guruma by the playwright Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443).

The Play - Tsuchi-Guruma

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 200.

Beside himself with grief at the death of his wife, Fukakusa no Shosho abandons his son and goes off to become a priest.  One of his retainers, Kojiro, becomes distracted by the worry and responsibility which devolves upon him and takes the son in search of his father by dragging him from place to place in a barrow.  One day, they come to the Zenko-ji and there, by a happy chance, are reunited with Fukakusa.


Print Details

 IHL Catalog #334
 Title Tsuchi-Guruma 土車 (The Wheelbarrow)
 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
 Date 1925-1930
 Edition unknown
 Publisher Seibi Shoten (or Seibi Shoin), Tokyo
 Carver Uchida Eikichi
 Printer Yoshida Takesaburō
 Impression excellent
 Colors excellent
 Condition excellent - slight wrinkling and fold bottom left corner; not backed
 Genre ukiyo-e
 Miscellaneous 
 Format oban yoko-e
 H x W Paper 10 x 14 3/8 in. (25.4 x 36.5 cm)
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