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Actor Bandô Matatarô IV as Gempachibyôe in “Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise” (“Mutsu no hana ume no kaomise”), About 1769. Color woodblock print; hosoban.
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 31.6 × 14.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Actor Bandô Matatarô IV as Gempachibyôe in “Snowflakes: Plum Blossoms Kaomise” (“Mutsu no hana ume no kaomise”)
- Artist
- Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792
- Date
- About 1769
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Dimensions
- 31.6 × 14.2 cm (12 7/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.