Artist: Katsukawa Shunsho
Title: The Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Minister of the Left (center, in the carriage), Ichikawa Ebizo III as Matsuo-maru (center, kneeling on the ground), Ichikawa Yaozo II as Sakura-maru (right), and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru (left), in the "Carriage Stopping" (Kuruma-biki) Scene from the Play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (Sugawara's Secrets of Calligraphy), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Sixteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1776
Date: c. 1776
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Source:
Art Institute of Chicago
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Description:
Color woodblock print; hosoban; triptych 31.2 x 14.4 cm (12 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.) (right); 31.2 x 14.7 cm (12 5/16 x 5 3/4 in.) (center); 31.2 x 14.2 cm (12 5/16 x 5 9/16 in.) (left) Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1938.498
