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[Meeting between Danjuro IX and Adolfo Farsari].
1874
Color woodblock print depicts an unidentified foreigner paying a visit to the Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro IX backstage. Sitting on a stool at right, the visitor offers the actor cigarettes to allow him to take a photograph. The visitor is probably Italian photographer Adolfo Farsari.
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Item Summary
Color woodblock print depicts an unidentified foreigner paying a visit to the Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro IX backstage. Sitting on a stool at right, the visitor offers the actor cigarettes to allow him to take a photograph. The visitor is probably Italian photographer Adolfo Farsari.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [Meeting between Danjuro IX and Adolfo Farsari].
- Call Number
- E Row 1/GC063/Box 10/Normal GA 2017.00010
- Identifier
- https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2017/01/09/ichikawa-danjuro-ix-1838-1903-meets-adolfo-farsari-1841-1898/
- Language
- Japanese
- Date Created
- 1874
- Extent
- 1 print : color woodcut ; sheet 34.5 x 22.7 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Issued as a supplement to the Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun newspaper in September 1874.
- Format: Nishiki-e shinbun.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
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- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d0c4e839-670d-4d8a-b655-a41f1166b0a5/manifest