Yamatoya (Actor Bandô Mitsugorô II as Ishii Genzô), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

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Yamatoya (Actor Bandô Mitsugorô II as Ishii Genzô), from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)

「役者舞台之姿絵　やまとや」　二代目坂東三津五郎の石井源蔵

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; 38.5 x 25.1 cm (15 3/16 x 9 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.873

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM, Sharaku (2011), #211; Ukiyo-e shuka 15 (TNM, 1980), p. 212, fig. 5; Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), pl. 13; Yoshida, "'Yakusha butai no sugata-e kenkyû," Ukiyo-e 27 (1966), p. 30, #5

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

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross