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<4) KABUKI AND VIOLENCE IN EDO SHUNGA>Kabuki Actors in Erotic Books (Shunpon) 春本の中の歌舞伎訳者 MATSUBA, Ryoko BREEN, John KABUKI ACTORS ACTOR PORTRAITS NIGAO-E UTAGAWA KUNISADA SHUNGA EROTIC KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI I SEXUAL ICONS This article aims to establish the publishing history of shunpon (erotic books) with actors' "true likenesses" (nigao-e) that wereissued in Edo, and explore the ways in which the development of actor likeness and the production of shunpon were interrelated. It was in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that the use of actors' "likeness" became the norm. Originally, artists had represented actors' faces in a stereotyped or generic way. However, from around the 1760s representations became more distinctive and indivisualized, taking advantage of the actors' "star" quality.</br>In this essay, I survey, in chronological order, thirty shunpon issued between c. 1773 and 1850 that employ actors' nigao. The survey will reveal some crucial points in the devlopment of the relationship between actor likenesses and erotic books. For example, Kunisadaproduced several shunpon in 1826-28 that combine accounts of scandals involving Kabuki actors with the plots of current plays. One question is: Why did Kunisada suddenly become so active in this field immediately after the death of Toyokuni I in 1825? The practice of nigao made the depiction of identifiable actors off stage possible. A small number of books, not all of them shunpon, published between 1770 and 1804, showed actors in private life. The exploitation of nigao led to a significant enrichment of Edo visual culture. The article hopes to reach a better of understanding of the public's intense interest in kabuki actors, and the ways in which artists developed and exploited nigao to satisfy that demand. International Research Center for Japanese Studies 2013-01-01 eng departmental bulletin paper VoR https://doi.org/10.15055/00000170 https://nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/176 10.15055/00000170 AA10759175 09150986 24343129 Japan review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies / SPECIAL ISSUE : Shunga: Sex and Humor in Japanese Art and Literature 26 215 237 https://nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/176/files/JN2612.pdf application/pdf 8.8 MB 2015-11-11