1933.4.1596: Actor Yamashita Kinsaku as Asama, from the series Beauties of the Three Cities, Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1596
- People
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Okumura Toshinobu 奥村利信, Japanese (active 1717 - 1750)
- Title
- Actor Yamashita Kinsaku as Asama, from the series Beauties of the Three Cities, Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- Edo period, early 18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208231
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Hand-colored ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Yamato ga Okumura Toshinobu hitsu"
- Dimensions
- Paper: H. 32.9 cm x W. 16.2 cm (12 15/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: (printed) Yamato ga Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
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
- 1933.4.1596
- 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 041; p. 89 (entry p. 182)
Verification Level
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