Sharaku

Kabuki Actor Morita Kan’ya VIII as the Palanquin-Bearer in the Play A Medley of Tales of Revenge (Katakiuchi noriaibanashi)

5th month, 1794

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Woodblock print; ink, color, white mica on paper

Dimensions

15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)

Collection no.

JP3117

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Sharaku. Kabuki Actor Morita Kan’ya VIII as the Palanquin-Bearer in the Play A Medley of Tales of Revenge (Katakiuchi noriaibanashi). Sharaku; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.