Nine Prints Depicting Dual Portraits of Actors in Roles
ca. 1852
Medium
Nine woodblock prints
Dimensions
Vertical chūban; Image (each): 10 × 7 1/4 in. (25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
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, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011
Accession Number
2011.146a–e
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Utagawa Hirosada · 1825–1875
**Utagawa Hirosada (also known as Konishi Hirosada or Gosōtei Hirosada) was a leading Osaka-based ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period, renowned for his prolific output of kabuki actor prints.** Active primarily from the 1820s through the 1860s (with some sources listing activity from around 1819–1863 or 1825–1875), he specialized in *yakusha-e* (actor portraits) and *kamigata-e*, the distinctive...