Katsukawa Shunshō

Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Yaozō II, Nakajima Mihoemon II, Ichikawa Ebizō III, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX in the Play Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami)

7th month, 1776

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

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

Dimensions

Overall: 12 5/8 x 17 7/16 in. (32.1 x 44.3 cm); Image: 12 9/16 x 5 3/4 in. (31.9 x 14.6 cm)

Collection no.

JP553

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Katsukawa Shunshō. Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Yaozō II, Nakajima Mihoemon II, Ichikawa Ebizō III, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX in the Play Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami). Katsukawa Shunshō; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.