Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Ichikawa Ebizô III as Matsuo-maru, Ichikawa Yaozô II as Sakura-maru, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru in “Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy” (“Sugawara denju tenarai kagami”)

Actors Nakajima Mihoemon II as Fujiwara no Shihei, Ichikawa Ebizô III as Matsuo-maru, Ichikawa Yaozô II as Sakura-maru, and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Umeo-maru in “Sugawara’s Secrets of Calligraphy” (“Sugawara denju tenarai kagami”)

Katsukawa Shunsho

About 1776

Accession Number

88327

Medium

Color woodblock prints; hosoban triptych

Dimensions

31.2 × 14.4 cm (12 5/16 × 5 11/16 in.) (right); 31.2 × 14.7 cm (12 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.) (center); 31.2 × 14.2 cm (12 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.) (left)

Classification

woodblock print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection