Katsukawa Shunshō

The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III as the Kumano Pilgrim Jissaku, actually Taira no Shigemori

1785 (Tenmei 5), 11th month

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Left sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Vertical hosoban; Image: 12 1/4 × 5 3/8 in. (31.1 × 13.7 cm)

Collection no.

JP162

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Katsukawa Shunshō. The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III as the Kumano Pilgrim Jissaku, actually Taira no Shigemori. Katsukawa Shunshō; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1914. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.