The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II as Ohatsu and Ichikawa Yaozo II as her lover Tokubei in the play "Yoni Osaka Nitsui no Meoto," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the second month, 1767
Torii Kiyomitsu I · 1767
Provenance
Ownership history
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Dec. 1906; 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. 543, no. 1134; Gunsaulus, AIC cat. 1 (1955), p. 265, no. 55
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