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The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Abe no Muneto Disguised as a Peddler of Buckwheat Noodles, in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768, c. 1768. Color woodblock print; hosoban.
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 31.8 × 14.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Abe no Muneto Disguised as a Peddler of Buckwheat Noodles, in the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768
- Artist
- Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792
- Date
- c. 1768
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Dimensions
- 31.8 × 14.6 cm (12 1/2 × 5 3/4 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.







