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The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II and Matsumoto Koshiro III as Soga no Juro and Soga no Goro in Sogo moyo aigo no wakamatsu, Nakamura Theater

The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II and Matsumoto Koshiro III as Soga no Juro and Soga no Goro in Sogo moyo aigo no wakamatsu, Nakamura Theater

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Ippitsusai Bunchō

Artist/Maker
Ippitsusai Bunchō
(Japanese, active around 1765 – 1792)
Title
The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II and Matsumoto Koshiro III as Soga no Juro and Soga no Goro in Sogo moyo aigo no wakamatsu, Nakamura Theater
Date
1/1769
Material & Process
Color woodcut
Dimensions
296 x 141 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Inventory No.
1980.613
Classification
Prints
Location
Japan

Related

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 1

  • Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/1990–11/25/1990

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