- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1933.4.510
- People
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Tōshūsai Sharaku, Japanese (active 1794 - 1795)
- Title
- Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō IV as Gorōbei, the Fishmonger from San'ya from the Play "Katakiuchi Noriai-Banashi" (Kiri-za)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- Late Edo period, 1794 (5th month)
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/207197
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink, color, and mica on paper
- Dimensions
- Vertical ōban: H. 37.7 cm x W. 25.4 cm (14 13/16 x 10 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Tōshūsai Sharaku ga
- inscription: Printed seals: Kiwame; Publisher's mark. Impressed seals: Wakai oyaji (impressed twice)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.510
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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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 009; pp. 24-25
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 60, p. 59
Keizaburô Yamaguchi, Sharaku no zenbô [The World of Sharaku] (Tokyo, 1994), p. 22/Fig. 14.a
- Exhibition History
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Masterworks of Ukiyo-e, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 07/20/1996 - 01/12/1997
Japan on Paper, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/25/2019 - 08/11/2019
- Subjects and Contexts
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Collection Highlights
Google Art Project
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