The Third Floor of a Theater in Edo (Edo shibai sankai no zu): Actors (clockwise from top left): Nakayama Tomisaburô I, Matsumoto Kôshirô V, Ichikawa Ebizô V (Ichikawa Danjurô VII), Onoe Eizaburô I

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The Third Floor of a Theater in Edo (Edo shibai sankai no zu): Actors (clockwise from top left): Nakayama Tomisaburô I, Matsumoto Kôshirô V, Ichikawa Ebizô V (Ichikawa Danjurô VII), Onoe Eizaburô I

江戸芝居三階之図　　初代中山富三郎、五代目松本幸四郎、五代目市川海老蔵（七代目市川団十郎）、初代尾上栄三郎

Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Shimizu (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.4 x 25.4 cm (14 5/16 x 10 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent

Accession Number50.2324

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tobacco & Salt Mus., 100 Woodblock Prints (2008), #30 (complete); Mainichi shinbunsha, Ukiyo-e daiten (exh. cat., 1969), #100 (complete); TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #s 2580-2 (complete)

DescriptionLeft sheet of an incomplete diptych (or larger polyptych).

MFA impressions: 11.13706, 11.22497 (diptych); 50.2324 (left sheet only)

The title is on the missing right sheet.
Theater: Ichimura

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極