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The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Ike no Shoji in the play "Oguri Choseiden," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1725
Okumura Masanobu · 1725
Provenance
Ownership history
- Charles Jacquin, Paris; sold, Wapole Galleries, New York, Jan. 20–22, 1921, to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver with essays by John T. Carpenter, Timothy Clark, Julie Nelson Davis, Allen Hockley, Donald Jenkins, David Pollack, Sarah E. Thompson and David Waterhouse, Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680–1860, Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2008, p. 68-69.
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