id: 153864 accession number: 1988.105 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.105 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:33.589000 Album of Actor Portraits, c. 1790–1810. Shōrakusai (Japanese). Accordion-style album; ink and color on silk mounted on paper and ink on paper; album, opened: 28.1 x 42 cm (11 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1988.105 title: Album of Actor Portraits title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1790–1810 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1815 current location: creditline: Kelvin Smith Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: accordion-style album; ink and color on silk mounted on paper and ink on paper department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Shōrakusai (Japanese) - artist --- measurements: Album, opened: 28.1 x 42 cm (11 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1988 opening date: 1989-03-01T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: This album contains paintings of Kabuki actors who performed in the city of Osaka. digital 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.105/1988.105_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.105/1988.105_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.105/1988.105_full.tif