Title: The Actor Iwai Hanshiro as a Courtesan Reading a Love Letter while Mounted on a Black Ox
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1763
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Torii Kiyomitsu 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1735–1785
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (29.2 x 14.0 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Women, term: Reading, term: Actors, term: Ox