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Chushingura: Akt IX des Speichers der Loyalität – Kitagawa Utamaro
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Ein klassischer Ukiyo-e-Farbholzschnitt von Kitagawa Utamaro, der eine dramatische Szene aus dem Kabuki-Stück Chushingura darstellt.
Dieser Farbholzschnitt von Kitagawa Utamaro zeigt eine Szene aus dem berühmten Kabuki-Stück Chushingura oder „Der Speicher der Loyalität“. Die Erzählung dreht sich um die Fehde der siebenundvierzig Rōnin, eine Geschichte, die tief in der japanischen Kulturgeschichte verwurzelt ist. Utamaro, bekannt für seine Meisterschaft im Bijin-ga-Genre, wendet seine charakteristische Eleganz auf dieses dramatische Thema an.
Die Komposition ist in verschiedene Zonen unterteilt. Im Vordergrund steht eine Figur mit einem großen geflochtenen Hut im Profil und hält ein Dokument in der Hand. Daneben sitzt eine Frau auf dem Boden, die Hände in einer Geste der Kontemplation oder des Gebets gefaltet. Eine zweite Frau steht hinter ihr und kümmert sich um ihr Haar. Die Raumaufteilung ist typisch für die Zeit, wobei architektonische Elemente einen Sinn für innere Tiefe erzeugen, während die flache, grafische Qualität des Holzschnittmediums erhalten bleibt.
Utamaro verwendet eine raffinierte Farbpalette, die auf gedämpfte Ockertöne, sanftes Blau und Kohleschwarz setzt. Die Linien sind präzise und fließend und definieren die Falten des Kimonos und die zarten Gesichtszüge der Figuren. In der oberen linken Ecke bietet eine kleinere Einsatzszene zusätzlichen narrativen Kontext, indem sie Figuren in einer Außenumgebung zeigt. Diese Technik, einen Einsatz zu verwenden, um eine separate Zeit oder einen separaten Ort anzudeuten, ist ein häufiges Mittel in Ukiyo-e-Drucken des späten 18. Jahrhunderts. Der Druck demonstriert die Fähigkeit des Künstlers, komplexe narrative Anforderungen mit den formalen Einschränkungen des Holzschnittverfahrens in Einklang zu bringen. Er gewährt einen Einblick in die Theaterwelt der Edo-Zeit, wo historische Dramen und zeitgenössische Mode in der Populärvorstellung oft aufeinandertrafen.
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Chushingura: Akt IX des Speichers der Loyalität – Kitagawa Utamaro
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Kitagawa Utamaro
Utamaro was arrested in 1804 for making prints depicting the sixteenth-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was manacled for fifty days. He died two years later, at roughly fifty-three. The connection between the punishment and the death is debated, but the timing suggests something broke.
Almost nothing is certain about his early life. He was born around 1753, possibly in Edo, possibly in Kyoto, possibly in Kawagoe. He began publishing prints in the 1770s under the guidance of the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, who recognised what Utamaro could do with a portrait of a woman.
What he could do was unprecedented. He invented the okubi-e format: large head-and-shoulders portraits of individual women, mostly from the Yoshiwara pleasure district, printed in close-up with minimal background. Before Utamaro, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) showed groups of figures in full length. He isolated the face, the tilt of the head, the expression. The prints are psychologically specific in a way that had not existed in Japanese printmaking.
He also published books of insect studies and volumes of shunga (erotica), and he made portraits of ordinary town women, not just courtesans. Ohisa and Okita, two shopgirls who appeared in his Three Beauties of the Present Day, became famous across Edo because of his prints. He turned real people into celebrities, which may be the first documented instance of an artist functioning as a kind of media platform.
Tsutaya Juzaburo died in 1797. Utamaro was reportedly devastated. Some critics feel his work never reached the same level afterward. He produced over two thousand prints in his career.
Almost nothing is certain about his early life. He was born around 1753, possibly in Edo, possibly in Kyoto, possibly in Kawagoe. He began publishing prints in the 1770s under the guidance of the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, who recognised what Utamaro could do with a portrait of a woman.
What he could do was unprecedented. He invented the okubi-e format: large head-and-shoulders portraits of individual women, mostly from the Yoshiwara pleasure district, printed in close-up with minimal background. Before Utamaro, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) showed groups of figures in full length. He isolated the face, the tilt of the head, the expression. The prints are psychologically specific in a way that had not existed in Japanese printmaking.
He also published books of insect studies and volumes of shunga (erotica), and he made portraits of ordinary town women, not just courtesans. Ohisa and Okita, two shopgirls who appeared in his Three Beauties of the Present Day, became famous across Edo because of his prints. He turned real people into celebrities, which may be the first documented instance of an artist functioning as a kind of media platform.
Tsutaya Juzaburo died in 1797. Utamaro was reportedly devastated. Some critics feel his work never reached the same level afterward. He produced over two thousand prints in his career.
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Kitagawa Utamaro
Utamaro was arrested in 1804 for making prints depicting the sixteenth-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was manacled for fifty days. He died two years later, at roughly fifty-three. The connection between the punishment and the death is debated, but the timing suggests something broke.
Almost nothing is certain about his early life. He was born around 1753, possibly in Edo, possibly in Kyoto, possibly in Kawagoe. He began publishing prints in the 1770s under the guidance of the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, who recognised what Utamaro could do with a portrait of a woman.
What he could do was unprecedented. He invented the okubi-e format: large head-and-shoulders portraits of individual women, mostly from the Yoshiwara pleasure district, printed in close-up with minimal background. Before Utamaro, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) showed groups of figures in full length. He isolated the face, the tilt of the head, the expression. The prints are psychologically specific in a way that had not existed in Japanese printmaking.
He also published books of insect studies and volumes of shunga (erotica), and he made portraits of ordinary town women, not just courtesans. Ohisa and Okita, two shopgirls who appeared in his Three Beauties of the Present Day, became famous across Edo because of his prints. He turned real people into celebrities, which may be the first documented instance of an artist functioning as a kind of media platform.
Tsutaya Juzaburo died in 1797. Utamaro was reportedly devastated. Some critics feel his work never reached the same level afterward. He produced over two thousand prints in his career.
Almost nothing is certain about his early life. He was born around 1753, possibly in Edo, possibly in Kyoto, possibly in Kawagoe. He began publishing prints in the 1770s under the guidance of the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, who recognised what Utamaro could do with a portrait of a woman.
What he could do was unprecedented. He invented the okubi-e format: large head-and-shoulders portraits of individual women, mostly from the Yoshiwara pleasure district, printed in close-up with minimal background. Before Utamaro, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) showed groups of figures in full length. He isolated the face, the tilt of the head, the expression. The prints are psychologically specific in a way that had not existed in Japanese printmaking.
He also published books of insect studies and volumes of shunga (erotica), and he made portraits of ordinary town women, not just courtesans. Ohisa and Okita, two shopgirls who appeared in his Three Beauties of the Present Day, became famous across Edo because of his prints. He turned real people into celebrities, which may be the first documented instance of an artist functioning as a kind of media platform.
Tsutaya Juzaburo died in 1797. Utamaro was reportedly devastated. Some critics feel his work never reached the same level afterward. He produced over two thousand prints in his career.
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