Katsukawa Shunshō

The Actor the Fourth Danjuro with His Chin in His Hand Leaning on the Handle of a Large Black Axe

1770

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions

11 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (28.6 x 13.3 cm)

Collection no.

JP2405

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Katsukawa Shunshō. The Actor the Fourth Danjuro with His Chin in His Hand Leaning on the Handle of a Large Black Axe. Katsukawa Shunshō; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Louis V. Ledoux, 1931. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.