Katsukawa Shunshō

The Actor Onoye Matsusuke with Sword Held Above His Head with Both Hands

ca. 1778

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Diptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions

H. 12 1/8 in. (30.8 cm); W. 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm)

Collection no.

JP387a, b

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Katsukawa Shunshō. The Actor Onoye Matsusuke with Sword Held Above His Head with Both Hands. 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.