The Actor Sawamura Kamesaburo as Nagoya Kosanza in the play "Keisei Fukubiki Nagoya," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1731
Okumura Toshinobu · 1731
Provenance
Ownership history
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Dec. 14, 1911; 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. 667, no. 2374 (ID: 1731); Gunsaulus, AIC cat. 1 (1955), p. 177, no. 8
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