The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as a Boy Blowing on His Hands beside a Large Snowball, in the Play Nigiwai Genji Hana Saku Kado, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1793

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Title

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as a Boy Blowing on His Hands beside a Large Snowball, in the Play Nigiwai Genji Hana Saku Kado, Performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1793

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality)

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1788–1798

Medium

Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych

Dimensions

30.9 × 13.8 cm (12 3/16 × 5 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Frederick W. Gookin Collection

Reference Number

1939.932

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