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Maker(s):Yamaguchi Akira
Culture:Japanese (1969- )
Title:Muppet: Frantically Busy (reimagined work for Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)’s Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjurō I as Tekomai Masukichi, from the play “The Weaving Together of the Sun, Moon, and Stars at Day and at Night,” 1859, 2005.273)
Date Made:2016
Type:Drawing
Materials:Japanese ink and watercolor on paper
Measurements:sight: 15 x 10.5"
Accession Number:  AC 2017.23
Credit Line:Purchase with Wise Fund for Fine Arts
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Yamaguchi, a classically trained Japanese painter, often references the past in his work. With this piece, he upends Kunisada’s original design by switching the roles of man and beast. In the left panel, a mythical shishi lion manipulates an actor, whose blank expressions and visible joints reveal him to be a puppet. One of the most successful Japanese artists working today, Yamaguchi is frequently overwhelmed with work and has signed his name here as Tenteikomai Akira, or "Frantically Busy Akira.” The banner in the background, which would traditionally bear the name of the event or play, here reads: “For the Amherst College Art Museum.”

Tags:
theater; figures; lion; costume; writing; puppets; humor

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AC 2005.273
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III); Izutsuya Shōkichi, publisher
The Actor Kawarazaki Gonjurō I as Tekomai Masukichi, from the play "The Weaving Together of the Sun, Moon, and Stars at Day and at Night" ('Jitsugetsusei chūya no oriwake')
1859
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