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Your galleryThe Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I as Sanada, the daughter of the spinner Itoya, with an attendant in the play "Hiragana Yomeiri Izu Nikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1718
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The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I as Sanada, the daughter of the spinner Itoya, with an attendant in the play "Hiragana Yomeiri Izu Nikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1718, 1718. Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.
Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e · 28.4 × 14.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Actor Sanogawa Mangiku I as Sanada, the daughter of the spinner Itoya, with an attendant in the play "Hiragana Yomeiri Izu Nikki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1718
- Artist
- Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664–1729
- Date
- 1718
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e
- Dimensions
- 28.4 × 14.7 cm (11 3/16 × 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.