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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.514
People
Tōshūsai Sharaku, Japanese (active 1794 - 1795)
Title
Actor Ichikawa Ebizō as Kamakura no Gondayū, actually Abe no Sadatō from the play "Otokoyama Oedo no Ishizue - Shinobu Koi Suzume no Irodoki" (Kiri-za)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Otokoyama Oedo no Ishizue - Shinobu Koi Suzume no Irodoki: Ichikawa Ebizō (Kamakura no Gondayū/Abe no Sadatō) [Kiri-za]
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
Edo period, 1794 (11th month of Kansei 6)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207207

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "hosoban" format; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Sharaku ga"
Dimensions
Paper: H. 32.7 cm x W. 15.4 cm (12 7/8 x 6 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Sharaku ga
  • inscription: Printed seals: Kiwame; Publisher's mark. Impressed seals: 1) Kunsthalle, Bremen (Museum of Fine Arts, Bremen, Germany) - stamped in black ink on the reverse; 2) Dublette der Kunsthalle, Bremen (Bremen Museum of Fine Arts, duplicate) - stamped in black ink on the reverse.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.514
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Green, Dr. Arthur B. Duel (1870-1936): An American collector of Japanese prints, Andon (Leyden, The Netherlands, Spring 1984), No. 13, p. 4, fig. 1
  • Keizaburô Yamaguchi, Sharaku no zenbô [The World of Sharaku] (Tokyo, 1994), p. 122/Fig. 89
  • Sharaku, exh. cat., Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Shimbun, and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) (Tokyo, Japan, 2011), p. 199; cat. no. 170

Exhibition History

  • Masterworks of Ukiyo-e, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 07/20/1996 - 01/12/1997
  • Toshusai Sharaku - His Art and Age, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 05/01/2011 - 06/12/2011

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