Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu III Possibly as Masago Gozen in “A Courtesan’s ‘Mirror of the East’” (“Keisei azuma kagami”)

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This artwork was created About 1788.

Q: Is "Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu III Possibly as Masago Gozen in “A Courtesan’s ‘Mirror of the East’” (“Keisei azuma kagami”)" in the public domain?

Yes, Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu III Possibly as Masago Gozen in “A Courtesan’s ‘Mirror of the East’” (“Keisei azuma kagami”) is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Katsukawa Shunkо̄

About 1788

Medium

Color woodblock print; hosoban

Dimensions

32.9 × 14.9 cm (12 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

Classification

woodblock print

Department

Arts of Asia

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

15763

About the Artist

Katsukawa Shunkо̄ · 1743–1812

Katsukawa Shunkō I (1743–1812), born Denjiro Kiyokawa in Edo (modern Tokyo), emerged as a pivotal figure in ukiyo-e woodblock printing. His early life remains sparsely documented, but by the late 1760s, he had begun illustrating books such as *Talks about Debut Plays* (*Kaomise shibai banashi*, 1766). Shunkō studied under the master Katsukawa Shunshō, founder and leader of the Katsukawa school, an...

Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu III Possibly as Masago Gozen in “A Courtesan’s ‘Mirror of the East’” (“Keisei azuma kagami”)

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