The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Album of Actor Portraits
c. 1790–1810
Location: Not on view
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This album contains paintings of Kabuki actors who performed in the city of Osaka.Description
The paintings in this album show Kabuki actors costumed for their roles in a variety of plays. The characters are identified in the paper cartouches affixed to the paintings. While each painting is on silk that has been pasted into the album, the poems on some of the facing pages have been written in ink directly onto the page.- “The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75. Reproduced: p. 59; Mentioned: p. 74, no. 206 www.jstor.org
- The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).
- {{cite web|title=Album of Actor Portraits|url=false|author=Shōrakusai|year=c. 1790–1810|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1988.105