Kabuki Theater Scene

Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese, 1786 - 1865

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about 1850

Woodblock print

Sheet: 14 × 9 15/16 in. (35.6 × 25.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Helen Holden Wood, Class of 1934W

2013.42.8

Geography

Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Artist's signature in elongated vertical red toshidama cartouche: Toyokuni ga.; Publisher's seal in white vertical rectangle: Izumiya Ichibei, Sen-ichi; Censors' round seals: Muramatus Genroku and Fukushima Giemon (1840-1853)

Provenance

Possibly purchased by Arthur Lewis Wood (1912-2011, Class of 1934), in Tokyo, Japan, May-June 1957; to Helen "Heidi" Holden Wood (1916-2013), Hanover, New Hampshire, 2011; bequeathed to present collection, 2013.

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