Katsukawa Shunshō

The Actor Otani Hiroji III and the Actor Onoe Kikugoro I

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

A: H. 12 in. (30 cm); W. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm) B: H. 11 15/16 in. (30.3 cm); W. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)

Collection no.

JP400a, b

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Katsukawa Shunshō. The Actor Otani Hiroji III and the Actor Onoe Kikugoro I. 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.