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Gansuitei Yoshitoyo (also called Hokusui)
Knowledge: Nakayama Nanshi II as Shōgetsu-ni 1856, third month

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print, bust-length kabuki actor portrait with white face paint, black upswept hair, and richly patterned multicolor robes, with Japanese text cartouches

Gansuitei Yoshitoyo (also called Hokusui), Knowledge: Nakayama Nanshi II as Shōgetsu-ni, 1856, third month, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara S. Bowman

Artist or Maker
Gansuitei Yoshitoyo (also called Hokusui)
Japan, died 1866
Title
Knowledge: Nakayama Nanshi II as Shōgetsu-ni
Date Made
1856, third month
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/2 × 6 1/8 in. (21.59 × 15.56 cm); Sheet: 9 11/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24.61 × 17.94 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Barbara S. Bowman
Accession Number
M.2015.298.65.3
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Goodall, Hollis. Living for the Moment: Japanese Prints from the Barbara S. Bowman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.