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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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Chronicle of the Dan-no-ura Helmet, Koto Torture Scene

ContributorsToyohara Chikanobu (Artist) / 豊原 周延 (Artist)
Created1898
Description
At the front and center of this triptych is Akoya, an entertainer in the pleasure quarters of Kyoto. She was mistress to an aristocrat, a Heike warrior named Taira Kagekiyo (died 1196). In 1185 he was captured in the battle of Dan-no-ura, but was able to escape. Akoya was interrogated…

At the front and center of this triptych is Akoya, an entertainer in the pleasure quarters of Kyoto. She was mistress to an aristocrat, a Heike warrior named Taira Kagekiyo (died 1196). In 1185 he was captured in the battle of Dan-no-ura, but was able to escape. Akoya was interrogated about his whereabouts by Iwanga Saemon Munetsura, an assistant of Hatakeyama Shigetada (samurai that fought in the Dan-no-ura battle) in a palace at Horikawa. He threatened Akoya with torture if she would not reveal where Taira was hiding. Shigetada had his own plan to discover if she told the truth and presented Akoya with three instruments and asked her to perform for him. Depicted is Akoya playing the koto, also known as a zither. In her song Akoya sings of her love for Taira Kagekiyo in such a pure and steady manner that Shigetada, who is seen holding his fan upright, has no reason not to trust her and accepts that she does not know where Taira is. Iwanga looks irritated as he rests his arm on a brazier. Akoya is then released.

"Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki" was originally written for the puppet theater and staged for the first time in September 1732 in Osaka. It was adapted for the kabuki stage that same month in Kyoto.
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The Secret Assignation of Ushiwakamaru and Princess Joruri

ContributorsToyohara Chikanobu (Artist) / 豊原 周延 (Artist)
Created1887
Description
Depicted in this triptych is Ushiwakamaru, who would later be known as the great warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune. He is being led by a servant with a lantern to a secret meeting with the bashful Princess Joruri. According to the 15th century story, Joruri, the daughter of Yoshioka Ki’ichi, fell…

Depicted in this triptych is Ushiwakamaru, who would later be known as the great warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune. He is being led by a servant with a lantern to a secret meeting with the bashful Princess Joruri. According to the 15th century story, Joruri, the daughter of Yoshioka Ki’ichi, fell in love with Ushiwakamaru during a brief visit and then committed suicide when he left to continue his journey. The princess stands inside the doorway, holding her sleeve to her mouth, her kimono trailing onto the floor around her. The warrior pauses on the stepping stones in the garden, looking over his shoulder to admire the full moon softly glowing overhead, a flute in his hand.
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Playing With a Spring Pony

ContributorsToyohara Chikanobu (Artist) / 豊原 周延 (Artist) / Hasegawa (Contributor) / ハセ川 (Contributor) / Maki Kinnosuke (Publisher) / 牧金之助 (Publisher)
Created1893
Description

This print depicts a young boy of the samurai class playing with a stick horse, surrounded by four noble ladies.