Kanpaku Actor Nakamura Sojuro Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)

ca. 1870

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Ukiyo-e; Polychrome woodblock print on paper

Dimensions

sheet: 14 9/16 × 9 5/8 in. (37 × 24.5 cm)
image: 14 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (36.8 × 24.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary C. Tirro

Accession Number

2007.120.1

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868) or Meiji era (1868–1912)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
In the collection of Mary C. Tirro before Yale.
Bibliography
  • Amy Reigle Newland and Shigeru Oikawa, Time Present and Time Past: Images of a Forgotten Master, Toyohara Kunichika, 1835–1900 (Leiden, Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 1999),
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Inscriptions

Four cartouches from right top to left read: Kanpaku; Nakamura Sojuro; Masakiyo, Kawarazaki Sanji. Two small round seals at top right are publishers' seals (The one on the left could be Yamamura Kanesaburo's but the right is unclear).

Signed

Toyohara Kunichika hitsu (brushed by) followed by a round red seal (called toshidama seal adapted from the Utagawa school of his master Kunisada) at top left of the print in white cartouche.

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