Shôgatsuya (Actor Sakata Hangorô III as Fujikawa Mizuemon), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

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Shôgatsuya (Actor Sakata Hangorô III as Fujikawa Mizuemon), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

「役者舞台之姿絵　正月や」　三代目坂田半五郎の藤川水左衛門

Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1794 (Kansei 6), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6971

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM, Sharaku (2011), #208; Ukiyo-e shuka 15 (TNM, 1980), p. 211, fig.4; Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #12; Yoshida, "'Yakusha butai no sugata-e' kenkyû," Ukiyo-e 27 (1966), p. 30, #4; Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #102

DescriptionPlay: Hana Ayame Bunroku Soga
Theater: Miyako
花菖蒲文禄曽我（はなあやめぶんろくそが）
都

Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceFormerly in the Sumitomo collection; June 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.