Artist Toyohara Kunichika, Japanese, 1835-1900
Title
  • Untitled (Kabuki Actor)
Date ca. 1870
Medium woodcut printed in color ink on wove paper
Dimensions Image and sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 1/8 inches (34.6 × 23.2 cm)
Mount: 15 × 10 1/4 inches (38.1 × 26 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. Margery Jean Colburn
Accession Number 1993.117
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Stamped, in purple ink, on attached sheet: GENUINE | [oriental characters]
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, on attached sheet, left: 2 1/2
Inscribed, in pencil, on attached sheet, center: A famous Kabuki play | By Kunichika c.1870
Inscribed, in pencil, lower center: 3 / 1/2" Black New Mat Burton (2)
Inscribed, in pencil, right: 14 x 18 7/8
Dr. Margery Jean Colburn;
1993-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)