• Memorial portrait of the actor Ichikawa Ebizô V (Danjûrô VII).

Language:

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Creator:

• Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1864

Woodcutter:

• Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1864

Call number:

• E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01172
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• 1 item ; sheet 35.7 x 24.2 cm.

Format:

• Visual material

Type:

• Portraits

Description:

• Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)
• Format: Ôban tate-e.
• Item description: This memorial portrait (shini-e) includes an inset with a portrait of the actor’s son, who was the kabuki star Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII (1823-54). Danjûrô VIII had committed suicide five years prior to his father’s death. Ebizô V died on th.
• Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
• Signed: Ôju Toyokuni ga.

Publisher:

• Japan : [s.n.], 1859, 3rd month.

Subject:

• Actors—Japan—19th century—Portraits
• Portraits, Japanese—19th century

Date:

• 1859

Range label:

• Main Structure

Source acquisition:

• Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.

Location:

• GA E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01172
• GA Electronic Resource
• ELF1 E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01172
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99106575583506421

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/zk51vg905

Available online:

• Digital content