About this artwork
The scene is from the drama The Happy Couple of Nagoya, which was presented at the Nakamura theater in August 1742. Torii Kiyoshige’s mastery of portraiture is evident in this image.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of Asia
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Artist
- Torii Kiyoshige
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Title
- The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Fuwa Banzaemon in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748
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Place
- Japan (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1748
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Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; habahiro hashira-e, urushi-e
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Dimensions
- 65.3 × 15.1 cm (25 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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Reference Number
- 1925.2258
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/21470/manifest.json