
Nakayama Tomisaburo
EnkyoWW-1788-140025
Catalogue
- Year
- 1788
- Dimensions
- 35.4 × 24.9 cm (13 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Enkyo
Artist

Enkyo
Mixed Media
Kabukidō Enkyō was a Japanese artist who designed ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Nothing is known of Enkyō's life, and only seven of his works are known, all of which are ōkubi yakusha-e, bust portrait prints of kabuki actors. Scholars divide them into two groups based on differences in the signatures, and the second group appears to be a set, as the prints depict three brothers from the same play. Enkyō's identity has been subject to speculation: a student of Sharaku's, even Sharaku himself, or a kyōgen playwright.
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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