Shini-e
Shini-e (死絵, "Memorial prints"), also called "death pictures" or "death portraits", are Japanese woodblock prints,[1] particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century.
When a kabuki actor died, memorial portraits shini-e were conventionally published with his farewell poem and posthumous name.[2]
Memorial portraits were created by ukiyo-e artists to honor a colleague or former teacher who had died.
In Osaka, the death of a prominent kabuki actor could prompt several artists to issue commemorative shini-e or tsuizen-e prints simultaneously. Following the death of Arashi Kitsusaburō I in September 1821, for example, several of Osaka's leading print designers issued such prints to mark his career and death.[3]
Gallery
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Hiroshige by Kunisada, 1858
Kunisada by Toyohara Kunichika, 1864
Iwai Hanshirō VIII, by Toyohara Chikanobu 1882
Ichikawa Ebijuro I by Utagawa Kunihiro, 1827.
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Takeuchi, Melinda. (2005). "Shini-e (Memorial Pictures)," in The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, p. 594.
- ↑ Keyes, Roger et al. (1973). The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints, p. 320; Chin, Connie and Melinda Takeuchi. "Actors' Death Prints: Discovery of a New Genre." Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine Horizons (Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University) Fall 2005, p. 7.
- ↑ Milone, Marco (2022). Ukiyo-e: il periodo classico (in Italian). L'Erudita. p. 385. ISBN 9788867707270.
Bibliography
[edit]- Keyes, Roger S. and Keiko Mizushima. (1973). The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints: a Collection of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Japanese woodblock Prints in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art. OCLC 186356770
- Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam : Hotei. ISBN 9789074822657; OCLC 61666175
External links
[edit]- Viewing shini-e
- "Shini-e: the Performance of Death in Japanese Kabuki Actor Prints"
- Kuniyoshi project: Shini-e
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