id:			102615
accession number:	1921.1280
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1280
updated:		2022-08-04 09:00:27.879000

Onoe Matsusuke I as Ebisu, from The Stand-In Seven Gods of Good Fortune, c. 1780. Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792). Color woodblock print; sheet: 31.5 x 14 cm (12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.1280

title:				Onoe Matsusuke I as Ebisu, from The Stand-In Seven Gods of Good Fortune
title in original language:	見立七福神の内 「蛭子屋」初代尾上菊五郎
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creation date:			c. 1780
creation date earliest:		1775
creation date latest:		1785
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creditline:			Gift from J. H. Wade
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	color woodblock print
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 31.5 x 14 cm (12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	Signature: Shunsho ga
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	inscription:	蛭子屋
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235
	opening date:   2022-04-08T04:00:00
	<i>Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	William S. Spaulding [1865–1937] and John T. Spaulding [1870–1948]
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	(American Art Association, November 16, 1921 sale, lot 248)
	date: November 16, 1921
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	(Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1921
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1921–
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wall description: 
This print is from a group in which famous Kabuki theater actors who never performed together stand in for the Seven Gods of Good Fortune. Images of the Seven Gods symbolize hope for fortune in the coming year, and the set may have been made for the New Year of 1780. Here, Onoe Matsusuke I poses beneath curtains at the entrance to a place of business. They read, “House of Ebisu.” Ebisu is the god of fishermen, which may account for the wave imagery on the actor’s inner robe.
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