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JAPANESE PRINTS


TOSHUSAI SHARAKU

MATSUMOTO KOSHIRO IV AS GOROBEL

THE FISHERMAN AT SANYA


TOSHUSAI SHARAKU

MORITA KANYA VIII AS UGUISU NO JIROSAKU


TOYOTA NATIONAL MUSEUM


14” X 10” PRINTS


Tôshûsai Sharaku - Japanese Ukiyo-e Printmaker, 1770-1825 (WOODBLOCK)

Tôshûsai Sharaku was one of art history’s most fascinating figures. He produced an astonishing body of work in a very brief working period, from the fifth month of 1794 to the first month of 1795 (totaling 10 months due to an intercalary month). The number of works was also small, although the reported count varies depending on whether one considers polyptychs as single compositions or as separate sheets and, indeed, which sheets belong together as one design. If we simplify and count each sheet separately, the total would be 145 known individual sheets. The following table presents Sharaku's prints in chronologically arranged groups.

Period
No.
Format
5th mo., 1794
28
28 ôban mica-ground [all ôkubi-e or half-length]
7th - 8th mo., 1794
38
8 ôban, 30 hosoban [all full-length]
11th mo., 1794
64
4 ôban, 13 aiban, 47 hosoban [full-length except 3 aiban ôkubi-e]
1st mo., 1795
15
5 aiban, 10 hosoban [all full-length]

There are also 18 known drawings attributed to or by Sharaku: 10 double portraits of sumo wrestlers (9 lost in the 1923 Kantô earthquake, 1 surviving in the former Henri Vever collection), and 8 drawings of actors in the 8th month, 1794 (these were mitate of unstaged performances).


Sharaku was not a very popular artist; only after his work became highly regarded by Westerners was he fully recognized by the Japanese. He used a mica ground with black sheen for his portraits until the practice was prohibited by the government.

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