Masatasuya (Actor Nakamura Nakazô II as Kudô Suketsune), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

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Masatasuya (Actor Nakamura Nakazô II as Kudô Suketsune), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

役者舞台之姿絵　まさつや　二代目中村仲蔵の工藤祐経

Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1796 (Kansei 8), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.6 x 23.6 cm (14 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1762

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 15 (TNM, 1980), p. 214, fig. 5; Yoshida, "'Yakusha butai no sugata-e kenkyû," Ukiyo-e 27 (1966), p. 31, #42; Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #104; Yamamura & Machida, Shibai nishiki-e shûsei (1919), #230

DescriptionPlay (main feature): Furiwakegami Aoyagi Soga
Theater: Miyako
振分髪青柳曽我（ふりわけがみあおやぎそが）
都

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross