1916.508: Yamatoya (Actor Iwai Hanshirō IV as Kikusui), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1916.508
- People
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Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国, Japanese (1769 - 1825)
- Title
- Yamatoya (Actor Iwai Hanshirō IV as Kikusui), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- Late Edo period, dated 1794
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/210228
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- vertical ōban: H. 38.1 × W. 25.4 cm (15 × 10 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Toyokuni ga
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
- Accession Year
- 1916
- Object Number
- 1916.508
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Andreas Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1680-1938, Taschen (Köln, 2019), pp. 226-228, cat. 68
Verification Level
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