# Actor Nakamura Nakazô I as Osada no Tarô in The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith (Ima o sakari suehiro Genji), in Laurent Dabos's contemporaries

Katsukawa Shunshō designed this in about 1768, aged about 37. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: About 1768
- Medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Dimensions: 30.5 × 14.4 cm (12 × 5 11/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.479
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Katsukawa Shunshō](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/katsukawa-shunsho), Japanese, 1726–1792

Shunshō founded the Katsukawa school and changed the way kabuki actors were portrayed, giving them recognisable individual features rather than standard types. From the late 1760s his actor designs, often in the narrow hosoban format, dominated the field.

6 works in the collection.

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