Artworks

Gorō Uprooting a Bamboo Tree (Gorō Takenuki)

Artwork · Torii Kiyomasu · 1697 · Japanese woodblock print · Tokyo National Museum

The actor Ichikawa Danjūrō as Gorō, a stocky man with bulging muscles straining to pull a thick bamboo from the ground: the line that marks the body’s contour is remarkably calligraphic. By Torii Kiyomasu (active 1697–mid-1720s) of the Torii school, the family that held a monopoly on Kabuki posters. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 281–282, fig. 320. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.