The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Shume no Hangan Morihisa (right), and Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Chujo (left), in the Play Edo no Hana Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1769, by Ippitsusai Buncho, c. 1769
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The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Shume no Hangan Morihisa (right), and Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Chujo (left), in the Play Edo no Hana Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Second Month, 1769

Ippitsusai Buncho (Japanese, active c. 1755-90)

c. 1769

Medium
Color woodblock print; hosoban; center and left sheets of triptych
Classification
Print
Dimensions
31.5 × 14.3 cm (12 3/8 × 5 5/8 in.) (right); 31.3 × 14.2 cm (12 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.) (left)
Culture
Japan
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
Credit line
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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