The Puppeteer Kiritake Monjûrô with the Puppet Jihei (Right) and Other Puppeteers with Osui, the daughter of Jihei (Center) and Koharu (Left)

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The Puppeteer Kiritake Monjûrô with the Puppet Jihei (Right) and Other Puppeteers with Osui, the daughter of Jihei (Center) and Koharu (Left)

人形師桐竹文十郎と人形：おつい（中）、小春（左）、治平（右）

Sekino Jun'ichirô (Japanese, 1914–1988)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1954 (Shôwa 29)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Height x width: 54.8 × 70.5 cm (21 9/16 × 27 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund

Accession Number55.456

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Statler, ed. Endo, Yomigaetta geijutsu (2009), pl. 41; Sekino Jun'ichirô hanga sakuhin shû (1997), list #155, no photo; Statler, Modern J. Prints (1956), pl. 41

DescriptionEdition: 11/30.

Signed Junichiro Sekino (in pencil)

Marks Artist's seal: Jun

Provenance1955, sold by Rev. J. Calvert Hudson to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 15, 1955)