Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the renegade monk Wantetsu from Ôkamidani – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the renegade monk Wantetsu from Ôkamidani

Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the renegade monk Wantetsu from Ôkamidani

五代目市川団十郎の狼谷のわん鉄

Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)

Japanese

Edo period

1778 (An'ei 7), 11th month

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

Dimensions Hosoban; 29.8 x 14.1 cm (11 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4122

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark et al., The Actor's Image (1994), #396 (complete diptych)

DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete diptych.

MFA impressions: 11.18873, 21.4122

Play: Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori
Theater: Morita
伊達錦対将（だてにしきついのゆみとり）
森田

Signed (this sheet unsigned; Shunshô ga on right sheet)
無款

ProvenanceNovember 1912, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.