Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Ichikawa Ebizô III as Matsuo-maru, Ichikawa Yaozô II as Sakura-maru, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru in “Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy” (“Sugawara denju tenarai kagami”)
Katsukawa ShunshoAbout 1776
Accession Number
88327
Medium
Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych
Dimensions
31.2 × 14.4 cm (12 5/16 × 5 11/16 in.) (right); 31.2 × 14.7 cm (12 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.) (center); 31.2 × 14.2 cm (12 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.) (left)
Classification
woodblock print
Credit Line
Clarence Buckingham Collection
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