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The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Fuwa Banzaemon in the play "Monzukushi Nagoya Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1748
Torii KiyoshigeLinkedCulture matchlcp-e5bc1f1cce22
- Date
- 1748
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; habahiro hashira-e, urushi-e
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 21470
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The scene is from the drama The Happy Couple of Nagoya, which was presented at the Nakamura theater in August 1742. Torii Kiyoshige’s mastery of portraiture is evident in this image.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Bunshichi Kobayashi (c. 1861–1923); sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Dec. 1906; 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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