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Okumura Masanobu

ca. 1710 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

The versatile artist Okumura Masanobu portrayed the great actor Ichikawa Danjūrō I (1660–1704) playing the role of a swaggering hero, or aragoto, Soga Gorō—the role that made him famous. Soga Gorō performed one of his courageous deeds during a hunting trip at the foot of Mount Fuji, where he and his brother avenged the murder of their father. Originally a page of an album, this print was a memorial portrait of Danjūrō I, made several years after his death.

Artist

Okumura Masanobu

Date

ca. 1710

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918