Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V

Creator Name

Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

Cultural Context

Japan

Date

ca. 1780s

Source

Metropolitan Museum of Art

About the Work

Metropolitan Museum of Art Object Description

Woodblock print (nishiki-e)

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Title

Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V

Creator

Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章, Japanese, 1726–1792, Artist

Worktype

Prints

Cultural Context

Japan

Material

Diptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Image (left): 10 7/8 × 5 1/2 in. (27.6 × 14 cm) Image (right): 10 7/8 × 5 3/4 in. (27.6 × 14.6 cm);
height: 27.622555centimetre;
width: 14.605029centimetre;
width: 13.970028centimetre

Technique

Language

Date

ca. 1780s

Provenance

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936

Style Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Rights

Public Domain

Inscription

Location

Source

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Subjects

Weapons; Men; Actors

Topic

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