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drawing, shunga
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English: Preparatory drawing (one of six) for erotic handscroll painting of famous kabuki actors in imagined scenes of lovemaking. Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Benkei, making love to an unidentified female role specialist (onnagata) as Ushiwaka-maru, as the latter looks at an erotic picture; Benkei's weapons lie on the ground to one side. They see a small shunga. Ink on paper.
Depicted people Representation of: Ichikawa Danjuro VII (七代目市川団十郎)
Date between 1832 and 1835
date QS:P571,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1835-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 28.30 centimetres (irregular shape)
Width: 56.80 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
2004,0329,0.2
Notes The group of fourteen preparatory drawings is now divided between three collections. They were apparently intended for a large handscroll or series of paintings, although no corresponding finished work is known. In several cases different versions of the same composition exist, representing various stages in the creative process. The six drawings in the British Museum have similar written notations of size, suggesting that they date from around the same time. Clark et al 2013, cat. 147c, portrays Onoe Kikugoro- III as Nagoya Sanza, Ichikawa Danju-ro- VII as Fuwa Banzaemon and Segawa Kikunojo- V as Katsuragi, from a performance in 1823 of Ukiyo zuka hiyoku no inazuma (Floating World Hill: Love Birds with a Lightning Pattern), and on the screen in the background we see the ‘hidden’ signature ‘Painted by Kokuteisai Hanabusa Ittai’, the first two characters of which could also be read ‘Kunisada’ (Hanabusa Ittai was an alternative art-name used by Kunisada in the late 1820s–30s). The scene shows Danju-ro- (Fuwa) disguised in Sanza’s costume in order to seduce the crouching courtesan Katsuragi, showing how Kunisada used his deep knowledge of kabuki to make playful shunga versions of famous stage scenes, an approach similar to the painted handscroll in Clark et al 2013, cat. 146. Cat. 147b depicts Ichikawa Danju-ro- VII and Iwai Kumesaburo- II seen by a child servant (kamuro) in the pleasure quarter, and cat. 147a shows Matsumoto Ko-shiro- V. These two drawings from private collections show the same style of actor likenesses and are apparently from the same hand. All the drawings depict actors at their peak from the 1810s to the early 1830s, as in the painted handscroll, and therefore most likely date from the early 1830s. Between 1826 and 1832 Kunisada produced shunga books that included actor likenesses and featured scandals about their private lives; so perhaps the popularity of these books prompted commissions for shunga actor paintings. [MR]
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2004-0329-0-2
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