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Actors Iwai Hanshirô IV (R) and Ôtani Hiroemon (L)


四代目岩井半四郎  初代大谷友右衛門の下人権助
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1780

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban diptych; 30.9 x 28.6 cm (12 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.426-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 54.426 (right), 54.427 (left)

MFA impressions: 21.4153 (left sheet only), 54.426-7 (complete diptych)

Theater: Nakamura
Signed Shunshô ga
春章画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)