Utagawa TOYOKUNI
(Japan 1769–1825)
- Title
- Shôgatsu-ya (actor Sakata Hangorô III )
- Other titles:
- The actor Sakata Hangoro III as the Daimyo Abe No Mumeto
- Alternative title:
- Yakusha butai no sugata-e: Shôgatsu-ya
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- 1794
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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Ôban tate-e: 37.3 x 24.5cm image; 37.3 x 25.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Sined l.l., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Toyokuni ga [picture by Toyokuni]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Accession number
- DO4.1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (3)
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Editional Committee of the Ukiyo-e Encyclopedia (Japan) (Editor), Ukiyo-e Dai-hyakkajiten, Tokyo, 1982, vol.8/ 48 (colour illus.).
YOSHIDA Teruji (Japan) (Author), Ukiyo-e Jiten, Japan, 1990, vol.3/ 364-8 (illus.).
AJIOKA Chiaki (Japan) (Curator), Heroes and villains: from Japan's floating world, Sydney, May 2001, 8. cat.no. 3.27
- Exhibition history (2)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962.
Heroes and Villains, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 May 2001–19 Aug 2001.
