The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Hisamatsu

Arts of Asia

c. 1748

Ishikawa Toyonobu
Japanese, 1711–1785

Sanogawa Ichimatsu I appeared in this role in the play The Eternal Soga of the Green Gate, which was presented at the Nakamura theater in February 1743. The brown-and-black checked pattern on Ichimatsu’s outercoat (haori) is a design he made fashionable, and it appears in many of his portraits. The contrast of the outer coat with the white kimono patterned with pink plum blossoms and seals is quite striking.

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Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Ishikawa Toyonobu
Title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Hisamatsu
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1743–1753
Medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; habahiro hashira-e, urushi-e
Dimensions: 71 × 26.1 cm (28 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1931.243
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