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江都大芝居顔見世狂言惣座中寄初之図
First Gathering of Actors for the Kaomise Performances at the Great Theaters of Edo (Edo ôshibai kaomise kyôgen sôza chû yorizome no zu)
江都大芝居顔見世狂言惣座中寄初之図
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1784 (Tenmei 4)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal double ôban; 27.3 x 40.5 cm (10 3/4 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.658
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #520 (no photo); Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #33; Kobe City Art Mus., Megane-e to Tôkaidô (1984), #21; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #554, pl. 178; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #691, pl. CI
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.658, 11.20244
Title, signature, and publisher's mark in the right margin, cut off of this impression.
Title, signature, and publisher's mark in the right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed
(Kiyonaga ga in right margin, cut off of this impression)
（清長画）
（清長画）
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross