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Actor Nakamura Sen'ya from Shijô in Kyoto (Kyô Shijô kudari Nakamura Sen'ya) as Higuchi's Wife Tokonatsu


樋口女房常夏 「京四条下り 中村千弥」
Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active about 1696–1716)
Publisher: Komatsuya (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1716 (Shôtoku 6/Kyôhô 1),11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (tan-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 53.7 x 32.1 cm (21 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. )
Credit Line John Ware Willard Fund
Accession Number45.831
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0424; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #35; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 19
DescriptionOther impressions in Metropolitan Museum of Art and Honolulu Academy of Arts.

Play: Mitsudomoe Katoku-biraki
Theater: Nakamura
三巴家督開(みつどもえかとくびらき)
中村
Signed Torii Kiyomasu
鳥居清倍
Marks Artist's seal: Kiyomasu
ProvenanceLent by Gilbert E. Fuller, May 29, 1922. Returned October 11, 1923. Re-lent July 8, 1929. Returned September 19, 1931. Purchased November 20, 1945 at Parke Bernet Galleries