Yamazaki ,Toshinobu创作的日本版画《Portraits of the kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro IX, the sumo wrestler Kumagatake Shogoro and Taiso Yoshitoshi》

标题：Portraits of the kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro IX, the sumo wrestler Kumagatake Shogoro and Taiso Yoshitoshi

日期：1878

描述：

From a series of celebrity figures, this print shows Yoshitoshi seated at his desk together with a contemporary sumo wrestler (right) and the actor Ichikawa Danjūrō IX (rear). Danjūrō was a known associate of Yoshitoshi, and the first owner of the painting Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight, also in this exhibition. The figure of Yoshitoshi feeding a cat over his shoulder draws a direct visual parallel with his teacher Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), who was usually depicted the same way. Yoshitoshi thus appears as part of a lineage of Edo period (1603–1868) arts, a community of cultural practitioners in various disciplines that went into rapid decline during Yoshitoshi’s lifetime.Label Text: From a series of celebrity figures, this print shows Yoshitoshi seated at his desk together with a contemporary sumo wrestler (right) and the actor Ichikawa Danjūrō IX (rear). Danjūrō was a known associate of Yoshitoshi, and the first owner of the painting Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight, also in this exhibition. The figure of Yoshitoshi feeding a cat over his shoulder draws a direct visual parallel with his teacher Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), who was usually depicted the same way. Yoshitoshi thus appears as part of a lineage of Edo period (1603–1868) arts, a community of cultural practitioners in various disciplines that went into rapid decline during Yoshitoshi’s lifetime.

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