Descriptive Information

Title

Memorial portrait of the actor Ichikawa Ebizô V (Danjûrô VII).

Call Number

E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01172

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/zk51vg905

Publisher

Japan : [s.n.], 1859, 3rd month.

Language

No linguistic content

Date Created

1859

Extent

1 item ; sheet 35.7 x 24.2 cm.

Source Acquisition

Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)

Format: Ôban tate-e.

Item description: This memorial portrait (shini-e) includes an inset with a portrait of the actor’s son, who was the kabuki star Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII (1823-54). Danjûrô VIII had committed suicide five years prior to his father’s death. Ebizô V died on the 23rd day of the 3rd month of 1859.

Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.

Signed: Ôju Toyokuni ga.

Discovery Information

Subject

Actors—Japan—19th century—Portraits

Portraits, Japanese—19th century

Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count

1

Institutional Information

Collection

Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a9b8db86-2367-4b85-9ab6-a761758d3c65/manifest

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