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Momonoi Wakasanosuke Drawing a Sword
Also titled Momonoi Wakasanosuke trekt een zwaard
Katsukawa Shunei (1762–1819)
1795
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 365 mm x width 249 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The print features an actor in the play Chushingura. This famous Japanese saga is about 47 samurai who avenge their master’s death. The colours are well preserved. Notice, for example, the subtle red around the eyes: this make-up identifies the figure as an actor.
