Cleveland Museum of Art
Onoe Matsusuke as Usui Sadamitsu
Katsukawa ShunzanLinkedCulture matchlcp-4f52e06f4297
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 103241
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This print is part of a triptych (a composition of three prints) that shows actors portraying three of the four famed protectors of imperial regent Minamoto Yorimitsu (948?–1021). Collectively, they are known as his Shitennō (四天王), or “Four Heavenly Kings,” after the Buddhist deities who guard the four cardinal directions. The characters are indicated by the large house crests on their robes. The actor Onoe Matsusuke I’s identity is revealed by a fan with the ideograph matsu (松), or “pine,” tucked into his robe, just against his breastplate.
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- Credit line
- Gift from J. H. Wade
- Provenance
- ?–1921: (Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1921–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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