Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Segawa Kikunojo I as a courtesan
Ishikawa ToyonobuLinkedCulture matchlcp-d026c35f12b7
- Date
- c. 1747
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical oban diptych, beni-e
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 21451
This is probably a portrait of the actor who played the courtesan Nishikigi in the play A Group of Sumo Wresters of the Izu Peninsula , which was performed at the Nakamura theater in December 1747. Since women were prohibited from acting onstage, female roles were taken by men called onnagata . The actor Segawa Kikunojo I was one of the most famous onnagata of the time. His crest ( mon ) appears on his sleeve.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Jan. 1908; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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