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 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1780 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1785 current location: creditline: Gift from J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: color woodblock print department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 31.5 x 14 cm (12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signature: Shunsho ga translation: remark: inscription: 蛭子屋 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235 opening date: 2022-04-08T04:00:00 Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE William S. Spaulding [1865–1937] and John T. Spaulding [1870–1948] date: footnotes: citations: (American Art Association, November 16, 1921 sale, lot 248) date: November 16, 1921 footnotes: citations: (Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1921 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1921– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1280/1921.1280_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1280/1921.1280_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1280/1921.1280_full.tif