Okumura Toshinobu

  • Lot 14. OSOME AND HISAMATSU

    Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago OKUMURA TOSHINOBU (Worked c. 1725-1742) The love affair of Osome and Hisamatsu, the clerk in her father’s oil shop, is a familiar one in Japan and has often been dramatized. Apparently, though not certainly, this print represents a scene from a drama with Arashi Wakano…

    Lot 14. OSOME AND HISAMATSU
  • Lot 15. SCENE FROM A DRAMA

    OKUMURA TOSHINOBU (Worked c. 1725-1742) The first Ichikawa Danzo as a man seated with arms folded at the foot of a flight of stairs, and turning to look up at a woman impersonated by Fujimura Handayu who stands behind him. The drama has not been identified, but the date is between December, 1715, when Danzo…

    Lot 15. SCENE FROM A DRAMA
  • Lot 16. SCENE FROM A DRAMA

    OKUMURA TOSHINOBU (Worked c. 1725-1742) The second Ichikawa Danjuro as a man standing under a wistaria arbor and aiming a blow with one of his sandals at Soga no Juro, impersonated by the first Ichikawa Monnosuke, who is seated on the ground before him. Hoso-e. Urushi-e. Signed: Yamato Ga-ko Okumura Toshinobu hitsu. Publisher: Soshu-ya. Purchaser:…

    Lot 15. SCENE FROM A DRAMA