Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizō I as Kamakura Gondayū - Toshusai Sharaku Canvas.
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Toshusai Sharaku
Sharaku Toshusai
Toshusai Sharaku is a mysterious ukiyo-e artist who suddenly appeared during the Kansei era in the mid-Edo period, producing numerous masterpieces in just 10 months before disappearing. His actor paintings, full of strong individuality and exaggerated depictions that even exaggerate the inner lives of the actors, have an unparalleled presence in the history of Japanese art.
Toshusai Sharaku Biography
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Identity Unknown : His true identity has remained a mystery for a long time, with the most likely theory being that he is Saito Jurobei, a Noh actor employed by the Awa Tokushima Domain. However, various other candidates have been put forward, including Dutch scholar Tani Buncho and ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, and the identity has yet to be confirmed.
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May 1794 (6th year of the Kansei era) : Under the direction of publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, he made a sensational debut in the world of ukiyo-e with the release of 28 o-kubi-e (portraits depicting the actors from the chest up) of kabuki actors active in Edo theaters.
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July-August of the same year : Published paintings of actors and sumo wrestlers, mainly full-body portraits.
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From November of the same year onwards : The style became slightly more tolerant, the actors' faces became less deformed, and they became closer to typical actor drawings.
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January 1795 (Kansei 7) : After this period, he stopped publishing works altogether and suddenly disappeared.
(*Due to the extremely short period of his activity, approximately 10 months, his birth and death years and detailed career history are unknown.)
Representative works
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"Otani Oniji III's Edobei"
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"Ichikawa Ebizo's Takemura Sadanoshin"
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"Genzo Ishii, the second generation Bando Mitsugoro"
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"The Fourth Generation Iwai Hanshiro's Wet Nurse Shigenoi"
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"Arashi Ryuzo's Moneylender Ishibe Kanekichi"
The greatest feature of Sharaku's work is that it sets him apart from the actor paintings of the time, which generally portrayed actors in a beautified manner, and boldly exaggerates facial features such as wrinkles, aquiline noses, and underbites, sometimes even depicting ugliness openly. This deformation goes beyond simply copying the actor's appearance, and succeeds in sharply revealing the character of the role the actor was playing and even the actor's inner self.
The compositions, which boldly omit the background and focus on the expressions and poses of the figures, are extremely modern and make a strong impact on the viewer. His radically innovative style was not necessarily well received by the common people of Edo at the time, but it was later re-evaluated and is said to have influenced painters such as Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, particularly in Europe. The mystery surrounding his true identity and the dramatic period of his career, which appeared and disappeared like a comet, continue to fascinate many people to this day.
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