Danshichi Kurobei from the series Heroic Commoners in Kabuki Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865)

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5th month, 1855

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print; triptych

Dimensions

framed: 20 1/2 × 35 3/8 in. (52 × 89.8 cm)
sight in frame: 13 5/16 × 28 7/16 in. (33.8 × 72.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of John F. O'Brien

Accession Number

2017.50.25

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
John F. O'Brien, Mt. Pleasant, SC; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2016
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (December 1, 2017), 20
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Inscriptions

All three have an Aratame censor seal, date seal of the 5th month, 1855, Horitake carver's seal and publisher seal Hayashiya Shogoro.

Signed

Toyokuni ga on all three prints.

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