Iwai Matsunosuke as Katsuragi and Nakamura Tsuruzô as the householder (1/3 of triptych) / Toyohara Chikanobu

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Accession Number
2003/1.409.1
Title
Iwai Matsunosuke as Katsuragi and Nakamura Tsuruzô as the householder (1/3 of triptych)
Artist Nationality
Japanese
Artist Life Dates
Takada, Niigata-ken, 1838 - 1912
Medium and Support
woodblock print on paper
Object Creation Date
1886
Inscription
Artist's seal: not signed
Censor's seal: none
Dimensions
35.8 cm x 24 cm (14 1/8 in. x 9 7/16 in.)
Century
19th century
Subject Matter
A woodblock artist of the Meiji eara, Chikanobu was originally a Tokugawa loyalist. After the fall of the Shogunate, he decided to pursue a career as an artist and moved to Tokyo. Chikanobu had originally studied works by the Kano school, but later apprenticed with Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi and Kunisada. He portrayed a variety of themes in his work as a ukiyo-e artist, with kabuki actor images constituting only fraction of his repertoire. This series is an historic, rather than contemporary, image of kabuki actors. Both Iwai Matsunosuke and Nakamura Tsuruzô were famed actors from the Edo era. Printed almost twenty years after the end of the Edo period, this image is a tribute to famous actors of the past.
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actors
kabuki
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2003/1.409.1
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"Iwai Matsunosuke as Katsuragi and Nakamura Tsuruzô as the householder (1/3 of triptych); Toyohara Chikanobu." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2003-sl-1.409.1/2003_1.409.1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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