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Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as the Doctor Tsurugisawa Ban'an


初代尾上松助の藪医者剣沢ばん庵
Katsukawa Shunkô (Japanese, 1743–1812)
Japanese
Edo period
1790 (Kansei 2), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.4 x 14.4 cm (12 3/8 x 5 11/16 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 Number54.462
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark et al., The Actor's Image (1994), #590 (dated 1783, with different role and play)
DescriptionDiptych: 21.6120 (right), 54.462 (left); no VR

Play: Haru no Nishiki Date-zome Soga
Theater: Nakamura
春錦伊達染曽我(はるのにしきだてそめそが)
中村
Signed Shunkô ga
春好画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)