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Sharaku, after
Japanese, active 1794--1795
The Actor Morita Kanya VII, plate 28 from the portfolio Sharaku, Vol. 1 (Tokyo: Adachi Colour Print Studio, 1940), 1940
color woodcut on dark mica ground
38.6 x 26.1 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.38915.28

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publisher, T. Adachi

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Artist Biography: Go= Sharaku, Toshuhusai.active 1794-1795; Ukiyo-e printmaker. Nothing known of him except that he lived in Edo and that his 159 known prints, large scale prints of actors frequently done on a mica ground, were all created during a ten month period of 1794-1795. Possibly a No actor in the employ of the lord of Awa known as Saito Jurobei, but there is no confirmation of this,a ccording to Roberts.

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