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Source Description
The actor wears the costume of a commoner and holds a rifle. It appears that he is being hoisted in a rope chair. His role name is printed in metallic gold colored characters at the top.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
6090
label
Actor Portrait
core
obj
dtoType
print
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
6090
sourceUrl
contentType
print
stage
normalized
title
Actor Portrait
description
The actor wears the costume of a commoner and holds a rifle. It appears that he is being hoisted in a rope chair. His role name is printed in metallic gold colored characters at the top.
provenance
Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.
date
ca. 1847-51 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
woodblock prints
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
style
Osaka School
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] KunishigeYoichi [ ] [ ]?
med
mulberry paper, color, ink, gold color metallic pigment
creator_ids
2052
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
d5d28c1894eb9e8e