Title: Kabuki Actor Morita Kan’ya VIII as the Palanquin-Bearer in the Play A Medley of Tales of Revenge (Katakiuchi noriaibanashi)
Object type: Print
Date: 5th month, 1794
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Tōshūsai Sharaku 
Artist bio: Japanese, active 1794–95
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Woodblock print; ink, color, white mica on paper
Dimensions: 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Actors