Actors Segawa Kikunojo III and Bando Mitsugoro II

Object Details

• Artist

  Utagawa Toyokuni I 歌川豊国 (1769-1825)

• Label

  In this print, the famous and versatile actor Segawa Kikunojo III (1751-1810) plays a female role in a scene with the actor Bando Mitsugoro II (1741-1829). In Toyokuni's prints, actors in male and female roles are shown in full figure, thus focusing on the contrasting poses, expressions, and costumes through which they enacted various characters. Toyokuni's prints display careful composition, such as the judicious use of black accents that call attention to the contrasting demeanors of the serene, elegant lady at left and the unsettled, rough man at right.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection (September 15, 2002 to January 9, 2003)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Anne van Biema Collection

• Type

  Print

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Utagawa, Toyokuni

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Theater, Art, Actors and actresses, Oban, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Anne van Biema collection, Portraits, Ukiyo-e

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints