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「（わ）かしゆ風 （三）幅対左」 初代荻野伊三郎
Style of a Young Man, Left Sheet of a Triptych (Wakashû fû, sanpukutsui hidari): Actor Ogino Izaburô I
「（わ）かしゆ風 （三）幅対左」 初代荻野伊三郎
Okumura Toshinobu (Japanese, active about 1717–1750)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1723 (Kyôhô 8)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions
Hosoban; 24.5 x 13.5 cm (9 5/8 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.724
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 1912
DescriptionIn early hosoban triptychs, "left" and "right" often (but not always) mean "proper left" and "proper right," that is, right and left respectively as seen by the viewer.
Signed
Yamato gakô Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
大和画工 奥村利信筆
大和画工 奥村利信筆
Marks
Collector's seal: Aoyama bunko
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross