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Actor Nakamura Sukegorô II as Ninja Aso no Matsuwaka in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”), About 1768. Color woodblock print; hosoban.
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 32.5 × 14.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Actor Nakamura Sukegorô II as Ninja Aso no Matsuwaka in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”)
- Artist
- Katsukawa Shunshô 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792
- Date
- About 1768
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Dimensions
- 32.5 × 14.9 cm (12 13/16 × 5 7/8 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.