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Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu as a Page Kumenosuke
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Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu as a Page Kumenosuke

Original Language Title鳥居清信 小せう粂之助、佐野川市松
Artist Torii Kiyonobu (Japanese, ca. 1664 - 1729)
Dateca. 1728
MediumWoodblock print; ink and hand-applied color on paper.
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/2 × 5 7/8 inches (31.75 × 14.92 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-72/2
Inscribed"Koshō Kumenosuke, Sanogawa Ichimatsu; Ōdenmachō sanchōme Yamamoto, Eshi Torii Kiyonobu hitsu."
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DescriptionThis is an urushi-e print designed by Torii Kiyonobu and published by Yamamoto Kyūemon.Gallery Label
Torii Kiyonobu II captured a dramatic moment on a Kabuki stage that would have excited spectators as the story unfolded. This was a hallmark of the Torii school, a lineage of artists who specialized in designing popular actor portraits.
Provenance

Howard Mansfield, New York, by January 1932;

Purchased from Howard Mansfield, New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 1932

Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), Seal Harbor, ME, by April 4, 1932 [1];

Purchased from Mansfield, through Langdon Warner, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] Letter from Howard Mansfield to Langdon Warner, April 4, 1932, Harvard University Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, HUG 4872.1010, box 12, folder 14, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Howard Mansfield was a lawyer who collected Asian art and the prints of James Whistler. According to the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, he was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and served as its first acting curator of Asian art prior to the appointment of the Met's first staff curator.

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