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[Portraits of actors, often playing roles] – Historic Photograph Print

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles], [between 1860 and 1866 (seal date: 1860.7)] — historic print
[Portraits of actors, often playing roles], [between 1860 and 1866 (seal date: 1860.7)]. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Twenty ōban sheets mounted on a single scroll set this group apart, and the record ties the series to the kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan, who lived from 1831 to 1899. These are nishiki-e, or brocade prints, full-color woodblock works produced in Edo, where portraits of popular actors in their stage roles were a major commercial genre. Several artists contributed, including Utagawa Kunisada (also known as Toyokuni), Toyohara Kunichika, and Utagawa Kuniaki, which shows how a set of actor likenesses from the early 1860s could be assembled by more than one hand.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1866 (seal date: 1860.7)]
Medium20 prints (mounted on scroll) : woodcut, color.
Genreorganized by the Library of Congress, 2001.
NotesTitle and other information based on entry in exhibition catalog. Artists include Utagawa Toyokuni (also known as Utagawa Kunisada) (sheets 8-10, 14-16, 20); Toyohara Kunichika (sheets 1, 2, 4, 5, 11-13, 17-19); and Utagawa Kuniaki (sheets 3, 6). Artist for sheet 7 not yet identified. Nishike-e (brocade) print. Ōban size. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Four sheets (7, 9, 13, and 20) Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 109, pp. 174-75. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows
SubjectsShikan, Nakamura,--1831-1899. Actors--Japanese--1850-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,665 × 4,560 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222079

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