Descriptive Information

Title

The actor Nakamura Fukusuke as Hayano Kanpei.

Call Number

E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01175

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5712m6652

Publisher

Japan : [s.n.], 1859, 5th 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 triptych.

Item description: Performed in the drama Hana ayame iroha jikki at the Nakamuraza Theater in Edo. Hana ayame iroha jikki is a play based on the story of Chûshingura, or the Forty-seven Masterless Samurai.

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

Signed: Toyokuni ga.

Item description: Right sheet of a triptych.

Discovery Information

Subject

Actors—Japan—19th century—Portraits

Portraits, Japanese—19th century

Theater—Japan—History—19th century—Portraits

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/a1ddc179-c583-4558-ba52-a96f14c2dea4/manifest

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