UTAGAWA school (attr. to): The Noh play: Takasago, - the characters OKINA and OUNA

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Artist: UTAGAWA school (attr. to)

Title:The Noh play: Takasago, - the characters OKINA and OUNA

Date:later 19th c.

Medium:Black ink ('sumi') with red underdrawing on paper.

Size/Format:diptych (c. 15.55" x 12", each sheet)

Description:Preparatory drawing ('shita-e') for a woodblock print DIPTYCH depicting the main characters Okina and Ouna ('Jo' and 'Uba') of the Noh play, Takasago. - One popular version of the story goes like this: at Takasago there is a very old pine tree, the trunk of which is bifurcated; in it dwells the spirit of the Maiden of Takasago, who was seen once by the son of Izanagi, who fell in love and wedded her. - Both lived to a very great age, dying at the same hour on the same day, and since then their spirits abide in the tree, but on moonlight nights they return to human shape to revisit the scene of their earthly felicity. They are mostly shown, as here, as an old couple, JO with a rake, UBA with a besom, gathering pine needles, as, e.g., depicted in the famous diptych by Kogyo, from his series "One Hundred Noh Plays".

Condition:Fine. - As here, it was common practice for shita-e to be executed on sheets made from smaller pieces of paper which were glued together.

Reserve: $740.00

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Condition

Fine. - As here, it was common practice for shita-e to be executed on sheets made from smaller pieces of paper which were glued together.

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UTAGAWA school (attr. to): The Noh play: Takasago, - the characters OKINA and OUNA

Name: UTAGAWA school (attr. to): The Noh play: Takasago, - the characters OKINA and OUNA
SKU: 233473668
Price: 360 USD
Availability: InStock

UTAGAWA school (attr. to): The Noh play: Takasago, - the characters OKINA and OUNA

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