The Actors Tomizawa Hanzaburo II as Nagoya Sanzaemon (often called Sanza) (right), Nakamura Juzo II as Fuwa Banzaemon (center), and an Unidentified Actor as the Pickpocket Matsumoto Daishichi (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Arts of Asia

c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章
Japanese, 1726-1792

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Artist: Katsukawa Shunsho
Title: The Actors Tomizawa Hanzaburo II as Nagoya Sanzaemon (often called Sanza) (right), Nakamura Juzo II as Fuwa Banzaemon (center), and an Unidentified Actor as the Pickpocket Matsumoto Daishichi (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771
Origin: Japan
Date: 1767–1777
Medium: Color woodblock print; from the illustrated book Yakusha Kuni no Hana (Prominent Actors of Japan)
Dimensions: 17 × 27.3 cm (6 11/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1938.511

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