Otowaya (Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Iwafuji), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

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Otowaya (Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Iwafuji), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

「役者舞台之姿絵　音羽屋」　初代尾上松助の岩藤

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

Japanese

Edo period

1795 (Kansei 7), 1st month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.2 x 25 cm (15 7/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6833

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shuka 15 (TNM, 1980), p. 213, fig. 24; Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #130; Yoshida, "'Yakusha butai no sugata-e' kenkyû," Ukiyo-e 27 (1966), p. 31, #24; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #2530

DescriptionPlay: Shimekazari Kichirei Soga
Theater: Kawarazaki
注連餝吉例曽我（しめかざりきちれいぞが）
河原崎

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画

Marks Collector's seal: Hayashi Tadamasa

ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Charles Jacquin; January 22, 1921, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at January 17-22, 1921 sale of Mr. Charles Jacquin's collection at the Walpole Galleries, New York, lot #652; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.