About This Artwork

Katsukawa Shunkô
Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Issun Tokubei in Act Eight of the Play Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (Mirror of Osaka in the Summer Festival), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Seventeenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1779, c. 1779

Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych
31.4 x 14.5 cm (12 3/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1928.311