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Three actors and a puppet, late 1810s. Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono.
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono · 21.2 × 19.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Three actors and a puppet
- Artist
- Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) Japanese, 1786-1864
- Date
- late 1810s
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
- Dimensions
- 21.2 × 19.5 cm (8 3/8 × 7 11/16 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.







