Right-Hand Page: The Actors Bando Hikosaburo III as Soga no Goro (right), and Segawa Kikunojo IV as Onna Asahina (left), in the Play Ume-goyomi Akebono Soga; Left-hand Sheet: The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Furugori Shinzaemon (left), and Ichikawa Danjuro V and Kagekiyo (right) in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

Title

Right-Hand Page: The Actors Bando Hikosaburo III as Soga no Goro (right), and Segawa Kikunojo IV as Onna Asahina (left), in the Play Ume-goyomi Akebono Soga; Left-hand Sheet: The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Furugori Shinzaemon (left), and Ichikawa Danjuro V and Kagekiyo (right) in the Play Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1780

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality)

Date

1775–1785

Medium

Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from a theatrical picture-book

Dimensions

15 × 32.3 cm (5 7/8 × 12 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson

Reference Number

1968.359

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