Hakamadare Yasusuke, pl. 76 from the series “Ogura nazorae Hyakunin Isshū (Ogura Imitation of the Hundred Poets)”

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Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Hakamadare Yasusuke, pl. 76 from the series “Ogura nazorae Hyakunin Isshū (Ogura Imitation of the Hundred Poets)”
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by John Bentham. For educational purposes only.
Artist/Maker (Japanese, 1798 – 1861)
Date1845-46
MediumWoodblock print
DimensionsSheet: 13 11/16 × 9 3/8 in. (34.8 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Franklin A. Sciacca
Object number2018.8.2
Not on view
DescriptionUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797-1861) was a well-known Edo period artist. This print is from the series Ogura nazorae Hyakunin Isshū (Ogura Imitation of the Hundred Poets), which was published by Ibaya Senzaburõ between 1845 and 1848 and featured fifty-one plates by Kuniyoshi, along with thirty-five by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and fourteen by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Each plate is inscribed with a poem from the thirteenth-century anthology Hyakunin isshu (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) and an explanatory text by the writer Ryùkatei Tanekazu (1807-1858). This print, plate 76, displays a poem and a portrait of Hoshoji Nyudo Saki-no-kwampaku Daijo-Daijin in the upper section. Below, the robber Hakamadare Yasuke is depicted dressed in court robes with a large box of loot on his back, having robbed the palace at Kyoto before being captured by the night-guards. The series was produced in response to censorship against popular portraits of Kabuki actors, as it disguises Kabuki references within a literary and historical framework.

Additional Details

Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Franklin A. Sciacca;
1977 - 2018: Franklin A. Sciacca, by purchase from Ronin Gallery, New York City.
Markings Stamps: a number of stamps with kanji at left center composition, lower left corner of composition, lower left margin, and right center composition in black ink; lotus stamp at right center composition in red ink.
Signature Not signed.
Inscribed Extensive inscription in kanji in block at upper register of print in black ink.
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