Segawa Kikunojo III
Artist
Katsukawa, Shunkō
(Japanese, 1743–1816)
Dateabout 1790
Mediummulticolored woodblock print
Dimensions37.2 x 25.1 cm (14 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.420
DescriptionLarge head and bust "close-up" portrait of the eminent actor of women's roles. He is attired in women's clothes and his hair is dressed in the fashion ofthe day for women. The purple cap that appears on his forehead was worn because all actors of women's roles were , by an edict fo the Tokugawa government obliged to shave their foreheads so that while upon the stage they would not be mistaken for women.On View
Not on view
Utagawa Kunisada I 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III 三代 豊国)
late 1822
Koizumi Kishio
December 1935
