初代市川男女蔵像|Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Ōmezō I
painting ca. 1833; inscription dated 1858
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 35 9/16 × 12 5/8 in. (90.3 × 32 cm) Overall with mounting: 70 × 18 7/8 in. (177.8 × 47.9 cm) Overall with knobs: 70 × 21 1/4 in. (177.8 × 54 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021
Accession Number
2021.139
Tags
About the Artist
Utagawa Kunisada|Ichikawa Danjūrō VII · 1786–1864
**Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)** Born in 1786 in the Honjo district of Edo (modern Tokyo), Utagawa Kunisada hailed from a family with a hereditary ferry-boat service that provided financial stability, allowing him to pursue art from a young age. His father, an amateur poet of note, died shortly after his birth, leaving young Sumida Shōgorō (Kunisada's childhood name) to nurture his evident talent...