Katsukawa Shunko (1743-1812)
Katsukawa Shunko (1743-1812)

Sawamura Sojuro III Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo

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Katsukawa Shunko (1743-1812)
Sawamura Sojuro III

Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo
Two prints, full-length portraits of the actors, in an interior holding an arrow head in one hand and a sword in the other, a flowering branch above; second, the actor disguised as a blind court musician in the play Edo Meisho Midori Soga performed at the Morita Theater, 1799.4, first signed Shunko ga, second Katsukawa Shunko ga--good impressions, the second faded, soiled at edges
hosoban: 32.5 x 14.6cm., first; 31.3 x 14.9cm., second (2)
Provenance
The second,
Pasadena Art Museum
Mrs. Robert A. Rowan
Frank Lloyd Wright

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