Artwork preview

The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman Standing in a Room Having a Wave-pattern Dado

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The woman is standing in a room. She wears a traditional Japanese kimono with a gray base color and large circular patterns in orange, green, and white. The kimono has a train that trails behind her. Her kimono has an under kimono with a white base and orange crisscross pattern. She has a decorative headpiece on her hair, which is styled up. The headpiece is black with orange and white accents. The room has a wave-pattern dado, which is a decorative paneling on the lower part of the wall. The wave patterns are blue, orange, and white. The floor is yellow. The background above the dado is beige. The woman faces left.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1779
Medium:
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
284 × 625 px
Museum record:
View original
Palette

You May Also Like

Yoshizawa Iroha as a Woman Standing on the Engawa of a House by a River
The First Nakamura Tomijuro as a Woman
Kabuki Actor Iwai Hanshirō IV
Actor Segawa Kikunojô III as a Shirabyôshi Dancer in “The Maiden at Dôjô Temple” (“Musume Dôjô-ji”)
Iwai Hanshiro IV
Nakamura Riko as Richly Clad Courtesan Standing in a Room
The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role
The Actor Nakayama Tomisaburo as a Woman at a Picnic under Autumn Maple Trees
Mimasu Tokujuro as a Woman Standing Near a Winding Stream
The Actor Segawa Kikunojo 3rd in a Female Role
The Fourth Iwai Hanshiro as a Woman
The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as Princess Usuyuki (Usuyuki Hime) in the play "Shin Usuyuki Monogatari," performed at the Morita Theater in the fifth month, 1774
Yoshizawa Iroha as a Woman (Tomoe Gozen?) Standing on the Bank
Hamamuraya: Segawa Kikunojo III as Shirabyoshi Hisakata, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)"
The Actor Ichikawa Monosuke II in an Unidentified Female Role
Onoe Tamizo as a Woman Standing, Facing to the Right
Kabuki Actor Azuma Tōzō III
Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, [whose attendants are] Wakagi, Wakaba (Matsubaya uchi Somenosuke, Wakagi, Wakaba), from the series “Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day" ("Toji zensei bijin-zoroe")
Iwai Hanshiro IV as Oiso no Tora
Segawa Kikunojō II as a Woman Standing
The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Hitomaru Disguised as the Geisha Oshun in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1783
Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III
Segawa Kikunojo III
The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I