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The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru in Act Seven of the Play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Third Day of the Fourth Month, 1769 Wall Art
ART BY: Ippitsusai Buncho
The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru in Act Seven of the Play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Third Day of the Fourth Month, 1769 Wall Art
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The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Okaru in Act Seven of the Play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Third Day of the Fourth Month, 1769 is a color woodblock print; hosoban by Ippitsusai Buncho (1725–1794), dated c. 1769. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. The source scan comes from the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 1042 × 2250 px (0.8 MB). It is filed under Prints and Japanese (culture or style), in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 71 works by Ippitsusai Buncho, a Japanese artist.
Ippitsusai Bunchō was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his yakusha-e actor prints in narrow hosoban dimensions. Bunchō and Katsukawa Shunshō are credited with having developed kabuki actor portraiture focuses on producing likenesses of the subjects, rather than stereotyped faces.
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