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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.2368
People
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英, Japanese (1762 - 1819)
Title
Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō 2nd as Kujaku Saburo(?)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Sawamura Sōjūrō (Kujaku Saburo?)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
Edo period, 1794 (11th month of Kansei 6?)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207402

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Left sheet from an ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "hosoban" diptych; ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Shun'ei ga"
Dimensions
Paper: H. 30.8 cm x W. 14.3 cm (12 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Shun'ei ga

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.2368
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Narazaki Muneshige, Ukiyo-e shuka [Collection of the Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints in Museums] Volume 8: Foggu Bijutsukan [Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University], Neruson Bijutsukan [Nelson Atkins Museum]..., Shogaku-kan (Tokyo, Japan, 1980 [Showa 55]), Color Plate 073; p. 95 (entry pp. 186-187) [072?]
  • Sharaku, exh. cat., Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Shimbun, and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) (Tokyo, Japan, 2011), p. 277; cat. 256

Exhibition History

  • Toshusai Sharaku - His Art and Age, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 05/01/2011 - 06/12/2011

Verification Level

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