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Actor Nakamura Nakazō I as Yamaoka no Saburō, in “The Ever-Blooming Potted Tree” (Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachino Ki)
Ippitsusai Buncho1769
- Attribution
- Ippitsusai Bunchô Japanese, active c.1755–90
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Physical dimensions
- 32.7 × 15.2 cm (12 7/8 × 6 in.) (untrimmed)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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As with hundreds of Kabuki plays, the libretto for the one that is the basis for this print, The Ever-Blooming Potted Tre e, has not survived. Its plot apparently involves a maple-viewing party made up of a group of beautiful women and demons. (Viewing the changing colors of maple leaves in the fall is still a popular Japanese pastime.) In the dance sequence pictured here, the actor is about to confront a thief who attempted to steal a treasured demon mask.
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