Actor Ichikawa Aragoro II directs Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865)

1860

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print, pentaptych

Dimensions

sheet: 13 1/2 × 9 in. (34.29 × 22.86 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917

Accession Number

1967.64.35

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography

  • Suzanne E. Wright and Melissa Walt Thompson, Working in the Floating World, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), no. 23.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, oban

Signed

signed Toyokuni ga

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