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[Sharaku TOSHUSAI] (Years of birth and death unknown)
An ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock print) painter and printmaker of the mid-Edo period. His personal information is unknown neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death.
Sharaku’s career as a woodblock print designer spanned only ten months between May 1794 and March 1795. He suddenly and mysteriously ended to produce his works and disappeared from the art world.
Researchers have tried to discover his true identity and some of them suggest that Sharaku might be the first generation Toyokuni Utagawa, or Hokusai, or Utamaro or even the Kabuki actor Jurobe Saito.
Sharaku released all of his works from publisher Juzaburo Tsutaya and they are divided into 4 periods.
1. Fifth month of 1794; 28 oban kirazuri okubi-e (large size bust-up portraits which use mica powder for a plain background)
2. Seventh and eight months of 1794; 8 oban prints (including 7 full-figure portraits of Kabuki actors) and 30 hosoban prints
3. Eleventh month of 1794; 44 prints of Kaomise Kyogen (a drama to introduce the actors to the audience), 10 okubi-e and 2 tsuizen-e (an ukiyo-e print for memorial)
4. First month of 1795; 10 hosoban and 5 aiban prints drawn Kyogen actors in spring and sumo wrestlers.
In 1st period, Sharaku produced unique and original portraits of Kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers using bold deformation unflattering features such as large noses or the wrinkles of aging actors. The facial expression and pose of models are also unique and dynamic, and Sharaku’s ukiyo-e earned a reputation. Sharaku produced all of his well-known masterpieces such as a portrait of “Otani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei” and “Sawamura Sōjurō III as Ogishi Kurando” in the 1st period and gradually the quality of works got to be worse; Some researcher even says that different designer might create Sharaku’s work in the 3rd and 4th period because the style changed excessively between 1st/ 2nd periods and 3rd /4th periods.
His work has since been recognized as some of the greatest in the ukiyo-e genre.
- Representative works:
“Otani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei”
“Segawa Kikujurō III as Oshizu, Wife of Tanabe”
“Sakata Hangoro III as the villain Fujikawa Mizuemon ”
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Item Code：7814003
[Sharaku TOSHUSAI] (Years of birth and death unknown)
An ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock print) painter and printmaker of the mid-Edo period. His personal information is unknown neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death.
Sharaku’s career as a woodblock print designer spanned only ten months between May 1794 and March 1795. He suddenly and mysteriously ended to produce his works and disappeared from the art world.
Researchers have tried to discover his true identity and some of them suggest that Sharaku might be the first generation Toyokuni Utagawa, or Hokusai, or Utamaro or even the Kabuki actor Jurobe Saito.
Sharaku released all of his works from publisher Juzaburo Tsutaya and they are divided into 4 periods.
1. Fifth month of 1794; 28 oban kirazuri okubi-e (large size bust-up portraits which use mica powder for a plain background)
2. Seventh and eight months of 1794; 8 oban prints (including 7 full-figure portraits of Kabuki actors) and 30 hosoban prints
3. Eleventh month of 1794; 44 prints of Kaomise Kyogen (a drama to introduce the actors to the audience), 10 okubi-e and 2 tsuizen-e (an ukiyo-e print for memorial)
4. First month of 1795; 10 hosoban and 5 aiban prints drawn Kyogen actors in spring and sumo wrestlers.
In 1st period, Sharaku produced unique and original portraits of Kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers using bold deformation unflattering features such as large noses or the wrinkles of aging actors. The facial expression and pose of models are also unique and dynamic, and Sharaku’s ukiyo-e earned a reputation. Sharaku produced all of his well-known masterpieces such as a portrait of “Otani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei” and “Sawamura Sōjurō III as Ogishi Kurando” in the 1st period and gradually the quality of works got to be worse; Some researcher even says that different designer might create Sharaku’s work in the 3rd and 4th period because the style changed excessively between 1st/ 2nd periods and 3rd /4th periods.
His work has since been recognized as some of the greatest in the ukiyo-e genre.
- Representative works:
“Otani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei”
“Segawa Kikujurō III as Oshizu, Wife of Tanabe”
“Sakata Hangoro III as the villain Fujikawa Mizuemon ”
Item Code：7814003
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