Artist: Katsukawa Shunshō (1726-1792)
Title: Untitled (Actor Ichikawa Danzō III) 
Date: c. 1768
Medium: Full color woodblock print; hosoban format
Publisher: Publisher unidentified
Gift of Dr. Cecilia Segawa Seigle

This print shows the actor Ichikawa Danzō III playing the part of Kamakura no Gongorō Kagemasa in the play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe, performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1768.

For another impression see: Art Institute of Chicago

Further reading:

• Clark, Timothy T. and Ueda Osamu. The Actor’s Image: Print Makers of the Katsukawa School. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago in association with Princeton University Press, 1994.

Posted by Huichao Han
May 1, 2016