Yamatoya (Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV as Kikusui), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

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Yamatoya (Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV as Kikusui), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

「役者舞台之姿絵　やまとや」　四代岩井半四郎の菊水

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

Japanese

Edo period

1794 (Kansei 6), 11th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.9 x 24.4 cm (14 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6968

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Edo-Tokyo Mus., Dai Ukiyo-e ten (2014), #207; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 7, Musée Guimet II (1990), pl. 88; Ukiyo-e shuka 15 (TNM, 1980), p. 212, fig. 20; Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #128; Yoshida, "'Yakusha butai no sugata-e kenkyû," Ukiyo-e 27 (1966), p. 30, #20

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13581 (no censor's seal or publisher's mark), 21.6968 (pub. Izumiya Ichibei)

Play: Matsu wa Misao Onna Kusunoki
Theater: Kawarazaki
松貞婦女楠（まつはみさおおんなくすのき）
河原崎

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#221); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.