Actors Jitsukawa Enzaburo I and Hosokawa Kizunosho and Arashi Kichisaburo III as Minbunosuke Shoetsu, at Hosokawa Mansion, from the play Nazoraete Yuki no Kukusui
Artist
Utagawa Yoshitaki
(Japanese, 1841–1899)
Date1861
MediumDiptych: Kamigata color woodblock prints
Dimensions9 15/16 × 14 1/4 inches (25.2 × 36.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Libertson
Terms
- Prints
- Japanese
- Color woodblock print
Object number2012.048.031
Label CopyOsaka was the second most important center of woodblock print publishing in Japan, after Edo (modern Tokyo), and likewise supported a thriving Kabuki theater. Osaka designers developed their own distinctive tradition of actor prints and Yoshitaki, the son of a paste merchant, became one of the most accomplished and prolific artists of kamigata in the late nineteenth century.Collections
