# The actor Ichikawa Omezo as the manservant Ippei, in The Floating World

Tōshūsai Sharaku designed this in 1794. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Ichikawa Omezō plays the manservant Ippei in one of the large-head portraits Tōshūsai Sharaku designed in 1794 for fans of the Edo theatre.

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## The work

- Date: 1794
- Medium: Color woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions: 37.7 × 24.3 cm (14 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1934.201
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Tōshūsai Sharaku](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/toshusai-sharaku), Japanese

Sharaku remains one of the puzzles of Japanese art. Within about ten months in 1794–95 he designed some 140 portraits of kabuki actors for the publisher Tsutaya Jūzaburō, then disappeared from the record.

8 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Tōshūsai Sharaku](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/toshusai-sharaku?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More prints of the 18th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/print-18?hang=749) (129 works)
- [18th-century Japan](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-japan?hang=749) (92 works)

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