1933.4.2368: Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō 2nd as Kujaku Saburo(?)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.4.2368

People

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, Japanese (1762 - 1819)

Title

Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō 2nd as Kujaku Saburo(?)

Other Titles

Transliterated Title: Sawamura Sōjūrō (Kujaku Saburo?)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

Edo period, 1794 (11th month of Kansei 6?)

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/207402

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Left sheet from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "hosoban" diptych; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Shun'ei ga"

Dimensions

Paper: H. 30.8 cm x W. 14.3 cm (12 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: (printed) Shun'ei ga

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel

Accession Year

1933

Object Number

1933.4.2368

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Narazaki Muneshige, Ukiyo-e shuka [Collection of the Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints in Museums] Volume 8: Foggu Bijutsukan [Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University], Neruson Bijutsukan [Nelson Atkins Museum]..., Shogaku-kan (Tokyo, Japan, 1980 [Showa 55]), Color Plate 073; p. 95 (entry pp. 186-187) [072?]
• Sharaku, exh. cat., Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Shimbun, and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) (Tokyo, Japan, 2011), p. 277; cat. 256

Exhibition History

• Toshusai Sharaku - His Art and Age, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 05/01/2011 - 06/12/2011

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