Portrait of the Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Yaozō III in the Role of Umeōmaru
after Kabukidō Enkyō (1749 - 1803)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
365 x 245 mm; 535 mm (Height); 410 mm (Width)
Order this imageCollection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1226405
Caption
A print of a Samurai Actor by Kitagawa Utamaro reflected the relationship between the Armstrong's and the Tokujwa family.
Summary
Woodblock print, ink and pigments on paper, bust portrait of the kabuki actor Ichikawa Yaozō III in the role of Umeōmaru, after Kabukidō Enkyō (1749–1803), 1796, signed upper left Kabukidō ga (picture by Kabukidō). This is the central section of a triptych of portraits of actors in the play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy), performed at the Miyako-za (Metropolitan Theater), Edo (present-day Tōkyō), in 1796. This print may be a reissue executed by Hashiguchi Goyō (1880–1921) in 1915.
Provenance
Armstrong collection. Transferred by the Treasury to The National Trust in 1977 via the National Land Fund, aided by 3rd Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1919 - 1987).
Makers and roles
after Kabukidō Enkyō (1749 - 1803), artist