The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as Kakogawa Honzo in Kanadehon chushingura, Miyako Theater, from a series of Half-length Portraits of Actors

Old Print Society (Tokyo, Japan); 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]

• Osumi, Takeshige, ed. "Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection Ukiyo-e Masterpieces Exhibition." Tokyo: Bun You Associates, 1999.
• Shugo Asano, ed. "Chushingura." Ako: Ako City history Compilation Office, 2014. p. 14, no. 122

• Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/13/1999–6/30/2000
• Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/1990–11/25/1990

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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