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TOSHUSAI SHARAKU (ACTIVE 1794–1795)

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro II in the Role of Ishii Genzo

Price Realised GBP 56,250
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GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000
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TOSHUSAI SHARAKU (ACTIVE 1794–1795)

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro II in the Role of Ishii Genzo

Price Realised GBP 56,250
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Price Realised GBP 56,250
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Details
Woodblock print with silver mica ground, signed Toshusai Sharaku ga, published by Tsutaya Juzaburo, 1794 (Kansei 6), 5th month
Vertical oban (36 x 24.3 cm.)
Provenance
Adolphe Stoclet Collection
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An okubi-e (large-head portrait) on a dark silver mica ground of the actor in the play Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga (The iris Soga of the Bunroku era), performed at the Miyako Theater in the fifth month of Kansei 6 (1794).

View other impressions in museum collections at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Tokyo National Museum.

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