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Sawamura Gennosuke and Segawa Roko as Une no Yoshibei and Chokichi in the Night Murder Scene from the Play Suda ga haru

Sawamura Gennosuke and Segawa Roko as Une no Yoshibei and Chokichi in the Night Murder Scene from the Play Suda ga haru

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Utagawa Toyokuni

Artist
Utagawa Toyokuni
(Japanese, 1769 - 1825)
Title
Sawamura Gennosuke and Segawa Roko as Une no Yoshibei and Chokichi in the Night Murder Scene from the Play Suda ga haru
Date
1809
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
510 x 231 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of Abigail Van Vleck
Accession No.
1984.1162
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

By 1943, acquired by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 1980, passed through inheritance to John’s wife, Abigail P. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 1984, bequeathed to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 101, no. 66

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