Actor Hayakawa Hatsuse as Ayame no mae

早川初瀬のあやめの前

Artist unknown, Japanese
Attributed to: Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)
Publisher: Hangiya Shichirôbei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1700 (Genroku 13), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper

Dimensions Hosoban; 32.9 x 16 cm (12 15/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1166

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 2271

DescriptionPlay: Yorimasa Mannen Goyomi
Theater: Yamamura

Signed Unsigned
無款

Provenance1900, purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Yamanaka & Co., New York; 1906 gift of Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)