Actor Tatsuoka Hisagiku playing the role of Inaba no Omatsu (?) Artist: Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)

mid 18th century

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

early Ukiyo-e: woodblock print with lacquer (urushi-e)

Dimensions

11 3/4 × 5 in. (29.8 × 12.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse

Accession Number

1953.1.46

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Mrs. Jared Kirtland Morse (Caroline Roberts Morse) (1907–1982), Cromwell, Conn.; gifted in 1953 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

Kyō Shjō no kudari Tatsuoka Hisagiku Inaba no Omatsu 京四条之下り　辰岡久菊　いなばのお松 \r\nActor Tatsuoka Hisagiku [in the scene of or coming down south the path?] Kyoto Shijō (the 4th Avenue) playing the role of Inaba no Omatsu (?)\r\nat upper right \r\n

Signed

Partly cut at the left but conjectured it was by Okumura Masanobu judging from the family (store) title Hōgetsudō 芳月堂　written and observed at the right of the supposed but cutsignature [Masanobu].

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