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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.2107
People
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, Japanese (1726 - 1792)
Title
Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Okaru in the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, A Primer (Kanadehon Chūshingura)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Kanadehon Chūshingura: Osagawa Tsuneyo (Okaru)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1779 (An'ei 8)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207709

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e) diptych; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
vertical hosoban: H. 30.9 x W. 14.8 cm (12 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Shunshō 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
1933.4.2107
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Right sheet of diptych (see 1933.4.2106)
Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Okaru in the play Kanadehon Chūshingura, performed at the Morita Theater from the eighth month of 1779

Exhibition History

  • Women and the Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/10/1994 - 03/05/1995

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