Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV as Akita Jônosuke Yoshikage in a “Shibaraku” role in “Memorial Service for St. Nichiren: A Model of ‘The Potted Trees’”(“Mieiko Nori no Hachi no Ki”)
Katsukawa Shun'ei · About 1791
Provenance
Ownership history
- Joseph R. Herod. Florence Higinbotham Crane (1870–1949; also Mrs. Richard Teller Crane, Jr.), Chicago; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 17, 1939.Purchased by the Art Institute from the Harmsworth Collection
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
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