Title
Snow: Onoe Baikō V as Iwakura Sōgen (Yuki Onoe Baikō Iwakura Sōgen)
1890
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan
- Date
- 1890
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink and colour on paper, triptych
- Dimensions
- 37.0 x 76.0 cm
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 2018
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Asian Lantern galleries
- Accession number
- 284.2018.a-c
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Works in the collection
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About
The kabuki actor Onoe Baikō V, also known as Onoe Kikugorō V (1844–1903), appears as the priest Iwakura Sōgen in the play Falling cherry blossoms (Hanafubuki). The priest fell in love with a woman called Orikotohime, broke his vow of celibacy and was dismissed from the temple. When his lover died, Sōgen retreated to the forest to starve himself to death and was haunted by her ghost. Emaciated and barely clothed in the icy landscape, his fingernails have grown long with neglect. In some versions, Orikotohime is reincarnated as a young priest. Their love impossible, the men decide to die together.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Japan Supernatural, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 2019–08 Mar 2020
Correspondence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Sep 2022–2024
