Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XV as Naozamurai, from the series Collection of Portraits by Shunsen (Shunsen nigaoe shû)

春仙似顔集　十五代目市村羽左衛門の入谷の直侍

Natori Shunsen (Japanese, 1886–1960)
Publisher: Watanabe Shōzaburō (Japanese)

Japanese

Taishô era

1925 (Taishô 14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.8 x 27.2 cm (15 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund

Accession Number38.721

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 137; Folan et al, Stars of the Tokyo Stage (2012), p. 107

Signed Shunsen hitsu (in block)
深水筆

Marks Artist's seal: Shunsen

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