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Rare and Fantastic Japanese Kabuki Scroll-Hayashi Bunto browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Paintings: Pre 1920: item # 624048 Please refer to our stock # ALR2020 when inquiring.
The Kura 16-1 ShimoWakakusa-Cho Murasakino Kita-ku Kyoto 603-8234 tel.81-75-432-6980 Guest Book 1,600.00 |
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| A brilliant scroll depicting an actor by Hayashi Bunto (1886-1966) memorializing the performance of the famous Kabuki Drama Senbon Zakura enclosed in the original signed wooden box thus titled. It is enclosed in a fantastic border of color and monochrome woodblock theater pamphlets and album pages depicting historical scenes of this play. The actor featured carrying a bucket of water and dressed as a commoner is likely the character Taira no Tomomori disguised as an innkeeper named Tokaiya Ginpei. The scroll is pigment on paper in the album frame extended with sea green (fitting the mood as the play revolves around a sea battle) and is capped with appropriate wooden rollers wrapped in cherry bark. Everything about the scroll is a well thought out allusion to the contents of the drama. It is 17-1/2 by 49 inches (44.5 x 124.5 cm) and in excellent condition, dating from the first part of the 20th century. Bunto studied painting under Yamamoto Shunkyo, and became a preeminent Shijo school artist of the early 20th Century. He is held in the collection of, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, as well as many private collections. Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura was a kabuki play originating in the Bunraku puppet theater, first performed in 1747 and adapted to the Kabuki stage due to its high acclaim the following year. Written by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senri, it is a play which epitomizes the thought of the time and the Japanese sense fo Drama which inspired the Kabuki world. It is set after the battle of Dan-no-Ura, and the crushing of the Taira clan, and is a wrathful story of vengeance and the defeat of Tomomori, with the penultimate feature being that even the victor in the play (Yoshitsune) was actually murdered by his own brother in that same year. A very rare opportunity to own a piece of Kabuki history by a very well known master of the Shijo school of painting. | ||||||||||
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