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Source Description
The paintings in this album show Kabuki actors costumed for their roles in a variety of plays. The characters are identified in the paper cartouches affixed to the paintings. While each painting is on silk that has been pasted into the album, the poems on some of the facing pages have been written in ink directly onto the page.
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Document identity
localId
153864
label
Album of Actor Portraits
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object
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1
Source metadata
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153864
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object
title
Album of Actor Portraits
description
The paintings in this album show Kabuki actors costumed for their roles in a variety of plays. The characters are identified in the paper cartouches affixed to the paintings. While each painting is on silk that has been pasted into the album, the poems on some of the facing pages have been written in ink directly onto the page.
date
c. 1790–1810
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60476069
creators
34765
genreSpecific
Bound Volume
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
["Album","opened: 28.1 x 42 cm (11 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)"]
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1988.105
Source extras
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accordion-style album; ink and color on silk mounted on paper and ink on paper
tombstone
Album of Actor Portraits, c. 1790–1810. Shōrakusai (Japanese). Accordion-style album; ink and color on silk mounted on paper and ink on paper; album, opened: 28.1 x 42 cm (11 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund, 1988.105
collection
Japanese Art
didYouKnow
This album contains paintings of Kabuki actors who performed in the city of Osaka.
citations
citation
“The Year in Review for 1988.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 59; Mentioned: p. 74, no. 206
creditline
Kelvin Smith Fund
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2026-05-29 07:57:29.514000
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153864
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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accordion-style album; ink and color on silk mounted on paper and ink on paper
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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