Katsukawa Shun'ei (ca. 1762-1819)

Ichikawa Komazo III in the role of Ono Sadakuro

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Katsukawa Shun'ei (ca. 1762-1819)
Ichikawa Komazo III in the role of Ono Sadakuro
An okubi-e (large-head portrait) of the actor in the play Choko Ryogoku ori, performed at the Nakamura theater in the seventh month of Kansei 2 (1790), signed Shun'ei ga--good impression, slightly faded, slightly soiled toward edges, some stains, light horizontal creases
oban tate-e: 37 x 23.9cm.

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For another impression in the Tokyo National Museum see Kikuchi Sadao, et al., Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan/Tokyo National Museum, vol.15 of Ukiyo-e shuka (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1980), pl. 113. Another impression is illustrated in Yamaguchi Keizaburo, Sharaku-Hokusai, vol. 8 of Genshoku Ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten (Tokyo: Taishukan, 1981), pl. 28.

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