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Your galleryThe Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Oiso no Tora in the play "Nigiwai Suehiro Soga," performed at the Morita Theater in the first month, 1721 (?)
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The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Oiso no Tora in the play "Nigiwai Suehiro Soga," performed at the Morita Theater in the first month, 1721 (?), c. 1721. Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e · 32.4 × 15.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke I as Oiso no Tora in the play "Nigiwai Suehiro Soga," performed at the Morita Theater in the first month, 1721 (?)
- Artist
- Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729
- Date
- c. 1721
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
- Dimensions
- 32.4 × 15.8 cm (12 13/16 × 6 1/4 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.