Mica printing - Kirazuri

Japanese: 雲母摺 - きらずり
Mica printing - Kirazuri

A technique used in the printing of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. It refers to a technique using mica powder, but in many cases clam powder is used instead. It is often used to crush the background, and there are three types depending on the color of the background: white mica (no background color), black mica (black background color), and red mica (red background color). It was very popular in the first half of the 1790s (Kansei period), and was used to enhance the effect of the backgrounds of Kitagawa Utamaro's large-headed beauties and Toshusai Sharaku's large-headed actors. It is thought to have been banned soon after as a luxury item, but it was often attempted even in the 19th century.

[Hidetake Asano]

Toshusai Sharaku's "Ichikawa Ebizo and Takemura Sadanoshin"
A large-headed actor portrait of Ichikawa Ebizo (the 5th Ichikawa Danjūrō) playing Takemura Sadanoshin in "Koi Nyōbō Somewake Tezuna." Black mica print, 1794 (Kansei 6), published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō, owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

Toshusai Sharaku's "Ichikawa Ebizo and Takemura Sadanoshin"


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

浮世絵版画の摺(すり)の技法。雲母(うんも)粉を用いたものをいうが、多くは蛤(はまぐり)粉で代用させる。背景をつぶすいわゆる地潰(つぶ)しに多く使われ、地の色によって、白雲母(しろきら)(地色なし)、黒雲母(くろきら)(地色が黒)、紅雲母(べにきら)(地色が紅)の3種がある。1790年代(寛政期)前半に大流行をみ、なかでも、喜多川歌麿(うたまろ)の美人大首絵(おおくびえ)や東洲斎写楽(とうしゅうさいしゃらく)の役者大首絵の背景に用いられてその効果を高めている。まもなく贅沢(ぜいたく)品として禁止されたとみられるが、19世紀に入ってからもしばしば試みられている。

[浅野秀剛]

東洲斎写楽『市川鰕蔵の竹村定之進』
『恋女房染分手綱』で竹村定之進を演じる市川鰕蔵(5世市川団十郎)を描く役者大首絵。黒雲母摺 1794年(寛政6年) 版元蔦屋重三郎メトロポリタン美術館所蔵">

東洲斎写楽『市川鰕蔵の竹村定之進』


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