Actor Nakamura Ganjirō I as Kamiya Jihei

初代中村鴈治郎の紙屋治兵衛

Yoshikawa Kanpō (Japanese, 1894–1979)
Publisher: Satō Shōtarō (Japanese)

Japanese

Taishô era

1922 (Taishô 11)

Object Place: Yoshikawa Kampo

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink, color, and mica on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 41.9 x 27.4 cm (16 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund

Accession Number38.713

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 334; Smith, The J. Print since 1900 (1983), #55, photo p. 77

DescriptionPlay: Kamiji

Signed Kanpō (in block)
観方

Marks Publisher's mark: Satō Shō han

ProvenanceBy 1938, Yamanaka and Company, Boston; 1938, sold by Yamanaka and Company to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 1938)