id: 102622 accession number: 1921.1287 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1287 updated: 2022-07-14 09:00:24.949000 Iwai Hanshirō IV as a Woman with a Sword, 1791. Katsukawa Shunei (Japanese, 1762-1819). 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 1921.1287 title: Iwai Hanshirō IV as a Woman with a Sword title in original language: 四代目岩井半四郎の刀を持つ女性 series: series in original language: creation date: 1791 creation date earliest: 1791 creation date latest: 1791 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 Shunei (Japanese, 1762-1819) - 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: Shunei ga Censorship Seal: kiwame translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE William S. Spaulding [1865–1937] and John T. Spaulding [1870–1948], Boston, MA date: ?–1921 footnotes: citations: (American Art Association, November 18, 1921 sale, lot 638) date: 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: In this unidentified role, Iwai Hanshirō IV is costumed as a woman with long flowing hair, wielding a sword. Men of the Edo period shaved their head from the forehead back to the crown, leaving the side and back hair long, though tied in an updo. Even after the practice was abandoned for Kabuki theater actors specializing in female roles, they kept the custom of concealing the area that would once have been bare, so Hanshirō has a murasaki no bōshi (紫の帽子), or purple headband, attached to his wig. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1287/1921.1287_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1287/1921.1287_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1287/1921.1287_full.tif