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[Portraits of actors, often playing roles] – Vintage Wall Art

[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 actor portraits, mounted together on a scroll, make up this set, and its record names Nakamura Shikan (1831–1899), a kabuki performer, as the subject. Three designers worked on the sheets: Utagawa Toyokuni, also known as Kunisada, Toyohara Kunichika, and Utagawa Kuniaki. Made between 1860 and 1866, late in the Edo period, the prints show the bold color and fine detail of nishiki-e, or brocade printing, a style that flourished as kabuki drew large audiences and actor prints sold widely.

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 scan4,545 × 3,675 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222071

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