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Subject:a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: Mika Tue, May 05, 2015 IP: 86.81.160.184
Hi! I found this art, with a samurai pictured in it performing harakire. Can anyone read the Japanese? Or is it Chinese? Does anyone know who the artist is? Thanks!







Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: Guy Wed, May 06, 2015
Nice actor woodblock print (yakusha-e) designed by the famous ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769-1825), depicting the kabuki actor Bando Mitsugoro III (1775-1831) in the role of 'Soga no Juro' in the play 'Haruno Sakai tokiwagi Soga', performed at the Ichimura theatre in Edo (now Tokyo), 1st month of 1810.

The print was published by Tsuruya Kinsuke.

BTW: the actor is not performing 'harikiri' (in Japanese pronounced as 'seppuku') but he is holding a writing brush (can be dangerous also...).

Guy.


URL Title :Bando Mitsugoro as Soga no Juro, 1810


Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: Botan Thu, May 07, 2015
Guy san,

He is holding a Japanese smoking pipe('kiseru'), not a writing brush.

Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: j lewis Wed, May 06, 2015
It is a Japanese wood block print (Ukiyoe). If you take a close up of the signature and any other writing on it, someone is likely to provide more information.

That guy looks remarkably bored with the whole thing, doesn't he? :-)

Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: rat Wed, May 06, 2015
Others will better identify the subject and artist of your print, but the figure is only holding a pipe, not killing himself. The artist seems to be one of the Kunisadas (signature in lower left).

Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: Guy Thu, May 07, 2015
Yes indeed, smoking a pipe (can be dangerous also...).

Guy.

Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: Stan Wed, May 06, 2015
Your Japanese woodblock print is by Toyokuni I (1769 - 1825). It looks to be of the actor Bando Mitsugoro III smoking a pipe.

Cheers,
Stan

Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: Mika Thu, May 07, 2015
wow, thanks a lot, how do you know this all? Amazing, I am very happy with your answers. I did not see the brush...oops! Now I do...shame on me!

Perhaps a very wrong question, but do you think its worth more than 30 euros?
Kind regards!

Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: Guy Fri, May 08, 2015
You can triple or quadruple the amount.

I just want to add that originally, as it was often the case, this print was issued as a diptych together with a print depicting the onnagata actor (actor in a female role) Iwai Hanshiro V

Guy.



Subject:Re: a japanese print/painting with samurai harakiri
Posted By: Mika Sat, May 09, 2015
Thank you for this information. I did not know it was a two piece, good to know. Thanks!!

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