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Kataoka Takao I as Fujiya Izaemon
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Description
In this play, the young dandy Izaemon is in love with a beautiful courtesan. However, he has spent so much time and money in the Osaka pleasure district that he is disinherited by his family. Here he can be seen wearing nothing but a thin paper kimono stitched together from love letters.
The papery effect of the kimono is enhanced by the very thin paper that Kōkei uses. This paper, known as ganpi, is difficult to work with, but its translucent quality creates a powerful tension with the strong lines of his images and the pigments he uses.
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Details
- Series
- Bust Portraits XI
- Associated place
- Date
- 1996
- Artist/maker
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Tsuruya Kōkei (born 1946) (designer)
- Associated people
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Kataoka Takao I (born 1944) (subject)
- Material and technique
- woodblock on ganpi paper
- Dimensions
- print 37.4 x 22.3 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Philip Harris, 2011.
- Accession no.
- EA2011.2
Glossary
kimono
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kimono
Kimonos, or 'the thing worn' in Japanese, had seasonal designs. The style of kimonos would change four times a year, and winter kimonos would be padded.
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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