Actors Matsumoto Kôshirô IV as Yuranosuke (R) and Nakamura Rikô I as Okaru (L)

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Actors Matsumoto Kôshirô IV as Yuranosuke (R) and Nakamura Rikô I as Okaru (L)

四代目松本幸四郎の由良之助　　初代中村里好のおかる

Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)

Japanese

Edo period

1783 (Tenmei 3), 6th month

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

Dimensions Hosoban diptych; 31.5 x 14 cm (12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24

Accession Number54.434-5

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 54.434 (right), 54.435 (left)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
Theater: Ichimura
仮名手本忠臣蔵（かなでほんちゅうしんぐら）
市村

Signed Shunshô ga (on each sheet)
春章画

Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)