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Title: The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VI as the renegade samurai Sadakuro in act 5 of The Storehouse of Loyalty, Kiri Theater
Creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei, Japanese, 1762-1819; published by Iwatoya Kisaburo
Date Created and/or Issued: 1795
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Japanese Prints
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: From a series of approximately twenty full-length portraits of actors in roles from the play, "The Storehouse of Loyalty," performed at Edo kabuki theaters in 1795.
Inscription: Recto, signed Shun'ei ga at l.r.
Type: image
Format: Oban Full-color woodcut (nishiki-e) 15 9/16 x 10 1/2 inches
Form/Genre: Oban
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2n9977
1965.30.15
Subject: Drama; actors; samurai; swords

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