Japanese Prints from the Arizona State University Art Museum
The ASU Art Museum serves a diverse community of artists and audiences through innovative programming that is interdisciplinary, educational and relevant to life today. The Jules Heller Print Study Room at the ASU Art Museum provides a secure environment for care and storage for more than 6000 prints in the collection while also being an accessible resource for students and public. An average of 600 students visit the Jules Heller Print Study Room during the academic year. To further assist the educational experience, on display are examples of tools used to create the prints and the Curator of Prints is available to explain the tools and print making processes to students, professors and scholars. Classes and individual students have participated in the origination and research of exhibitions from our Japanese print holdings: Lasting Impressions: Japanese Prints from the ASU Art Museum (Aug. 28 – Nov. 27, 2010); Legends and Myths in Japanese Kabuki Prints (Feb. 11 – Sept. 29, 2012); and, Echoes of Japan: Prints by Western Women (Jan. 3 – May 17, 2014). By digitizing the Japanese print collection; and placing it in the Library's digital repository will expand and support our interdisciplinary and educational focus in Japanese art, making it available to a much broader audience than just the museum visitor. This is a collaboration between ASU Libraries, the ASU Art Museum, and ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
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- Creators: 豊原 国周
The actor Nakamura Shikan IV 中村芝翫[4] as the character Sajima Tenkaku. There are two different crests (kamon) on his kimono; one represents an amulet (Gion mamori) and was adopted by the progenitor of the Nakamura house of actors, Nakamura Utaemon I. According to John Dower in his guide to Japanese crests, The Elements of Japanese Design (1971), this crest was originally associated with the Yasaka Shrine, but during the Edo period, it also had an association with Christianity due to the hidden cross it contained. The other crest is associated with the Nakamura Shikan line within the Nakamura house; it represents the back of a plum blossom (uraume).
Scene from a play about the Genpei War between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
Onoe Kikugoro 尾上 菊五郎 as Efu Rinnosuke 恵府 林之助 in the play Ningen Banji Kane no Yo no Naka (Men Live in a World Where Money is All) by prolific kabuki dramatist Kawatake Mokuami 河竹 黙阿弥 (1816-1893).
This triptych shows a scene from the kabuki play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees).