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The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II (formerly Utagawa Shirogoro) as Matsuomaru and Azumo Tozo I as Sakuramaru in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Morita Theater, 1750
Ishikawa Toyonobu · 1750
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853–1908), Boston; by descent to his wife, Sidney McCall (1865–1954; born Mary McNeill, also Mary McNeil Fenollosa), Boston, 1908; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, 1909; 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. 639, no. 2120 (ID: 1383); Ukiyoe shuka 4, AIC vol. 1 (1979), p. 193, no. 146; Gunsaulus, AIC cat. 1 (1955), p. 216, no. 32
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