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Katsukawa Shunkô
Japanese, 1743-1812

Half-length Portrait of the Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Retired Emperor Sutoku in Act Three of the play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka (Returning Home in Splendor), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780, c. 1780

Color woodblock print; aiban
32.1 x 23.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
signature: Shunkô ga
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1925.2370

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Purchased by Clarence Buckingham from K. Oshima in 1916 and given tot he Art Institute by Kate S. Buckingham.




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