Actor Morita Kan'ya XIII as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, from the series Stars of Kabuki (Rien no hana)

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Actor Morita Kan'ya XIII as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, from the series Stars of Kabuki (Rien no hana)

梨園の華　十三代目守田勘弥のジャン・バルジャン

Yamamura Kôka (Toyonari) (Japanese, 1885–1942)
Publisher: Watanabe Shōzaburō (Japanese)

Japanese

Taishô era

1921 (Taishô 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 41.7 x 28.8 cm (16 7/16 x 11 5/16 in.)

Credit Line John Ware Willard Fund

Accession Number49.1149

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 208; The Male Image (Amsterdam, Nihon no hanga exh. cat. 6, 2011), fig. 8; Edo-Tokyo Mus., Edo-Tokyo Mus., Yomigaeru ukiyo-e (Beautiful Shin-hanga, 2009), #2-42; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga III (2001), #11

DescriptionPlay (shingeki): Les Misérables
Theater: Yûraku Theater, Tokyo
Date of production: 1920

Signed Toyonari ga (in block)
豊成画

Marks Artist's seal