Title

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Okaru in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eighth Month, 1787, c. 1787.

Caption

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as Okaru in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed..., c1787. Creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A05_353

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11,8Mb (625,0Kb) / 4,6in x 10,0in / 1372 x 3000 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women Hamamuraya Roko Kikunojo III woman people male man men arts country play playhouse entertainment art guy theatre color Japan Japanese drama veranda verandah location century gallery literature actors drag acting printing full length full-length actor art gallery cross-dressing Colour Kabuki Thespian 18th century Eighteenth Century woodblock printing artistic school Edo period onnagata Ukiyo-e woodblock print Art Institute of Chicago Chushingura art centre colour woodblock print Tokugawa period Heritage Art Block printing female impersonator oyama engawa kabuki actor Loyal League of Forty-seven Ronin The Treasury of Loyal Retainers Kanadehon Chushingura Art Institute Chicago Kikunojo Segawa Segawa Kikunojo III Katsukawa Shun'ei Shun'ei Katsukawa Arts of Asia Arts of Asia hosoban Segawa Kikunojo IV left sheet of diptych (?) Treasury of Loyal Retainers