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Details
- Other Title
- The actor Sakata Hangoro III as the Daimyo Abe No Mumeto
- Alternative title
- Yakusha butai no sugata-e: Shôgatsu-ya
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1794
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 37.3 x 24.5 cm image; 37.3 x 25.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Sined l.l., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Toyokuni ga [picture by Toyokuni]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DO4.1961
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Utagawa Toyokuni
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962
Heroes and Villains, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 May 2001–19 Aug 2001
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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AJIOKA Chiaki (Curator), Heroes and villains: from Japan's floating world, Sydney, May 2001, 8. cat.no. 3.27
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Editional Committee of the Ukiyo-e Encyclopedia (Editor), Ukiyo-e Dai-hyakkajiten, Tokyo, 1982, vol.8/ 48 (colour illus.).
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Yoshida Teruji, Ukiyo-e Jiten, Japan, 1990, vol.3/ 364-8 (illus.).
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Provenance
Getting
Crzellitzer Collection, 11 Feb 1936, purchased from the sale of the Crzellitzer Collection on 11 Feb 1936.
R.G. McNair Scott, pre Apr 1960, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, purchased by Mr C. Norris for the Art Gallery of New South Wales from the auction sale of R.G.McNair Scott’s Japanese Prints and Sword Furniture, at Glendining & Co. Ltd., on 11 April 1960, lot 88.
