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The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770
Katsukawa Shunshō, c. 1770
1.70 m
16 cm × 32 cm
About the size of an open laptop. You would need 5 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 32 cm
- Width
- 16 cm
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition
- Kind
- Made in
- Japan
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- As the museum records it
- 32 × 15.2 cm (12 5/8 × 6 in.)
- Why this differs from the record
- Recorded as 15 cm × 32 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
- Credit
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 16 cm × 32 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made c. 1770. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Clarence Buckingham Collection.
- How was it made?
- Color woodblock print; hosoban; from a multisheet composition, made in Japan, Japanese (culture or style).
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at The Art Institute of Chicago
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Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
