Actor Matsumoto Kôshirô VII as Sukeroku, from the series Stars of Kabuki (Rien no hana)

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Actor Matsumoto Kôshirô VII as Sukeroku, from the series Stars of Kabuki (Rien no hana)

梨園の華　七代目松本幸四郎の助六

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

Japanese

Taishô era

1920 (Taishô 9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 40.5 x 29.5 cm (15 15/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Sarah E. Thompson

Accession Number2012.1169

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 206; The Male Image (Amsterdam, Nihon no hanga exh. cat. 6, 2011), fig. 6; Edo-Tokyo Mus., Edo-Tokyo Mus., Yomigaeru ukiyo-e (Beautiful Shin-hanga, 2009), #2-40

DescriptionPlay: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo-zakura
Theater: Imperial Theater, Tokyo
Date of production: April 1917

Signed Toyonari ga (in block)
豊成画

ProvenanceBetween about 1968 and 1978, probably purchased in Lexington, Kentucky by Lawrence S. Thompson; 1986, bequest of Lawrence Thompson to Sarah E. Thompson, Lowell, MA; 2012, year-end gift of Sarah E. Thompson to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 27, 2013)