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Onoe Matsusuke I as Ebisu, from The Stand-In Seven Gods of Good Fortune
Katsukawa Shunshōc. 1780
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: Onoe Matsusuke I as Ebisu, from The Stand-In Seven Gods of Good Fortune
- Creator: Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726-1792)
- Date Created: c. 1780
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 31.5 x 14 cm (12 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: William S. Spaulding [1865–1937] and John T. Spaulding [1870–1948], (American Art Association, November 16, 1921 sale, lot 248), (Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1280
- Medium: color woodblock print
- Original Title: 見立七福神の内 「蛭子屋」初代尾上菊五郎
- Inscriptions: Signature: Shunsho ga, 蛭子屋
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Gift from J. H. Wade
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1921.1280
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