The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro
Torii Kiyomasu II · c. 1725
Provenance
Ownership history
- Choyo (1857–1915; also Suzuki Cho-Yo; Kazan Cho-Yo); sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Apr. 1899; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Muto Junko, Shoki Ukiyoe to Kabuki (2005), p. 482, no. 472 (ID: 305); Gunsaulus, AIC cat. 1 (1955), p. 48, no. 2 (attr. Kiyomasu I)
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