Actor Segawa Kikunojô III Possibly as Ono no Komachi in “Komachi Village: New Year at the Theater” (“Komachimura shibai no shôgatsu”)
Katsukawa Shun'ei · About 1789
Provenance
Ownership history
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Oct. 21, 1929; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 21, 1929.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Clark, Timothy T., Osamu Ueda and Donald Jenkins, "The Actor's Image", ed. Naomi Noble Richard (Chicago: Art Institute with Princeton University Press, 1994). plate 123
Comparables
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