The Wrestlers Nishikigi, Todagawa and Iwagaseki Standing in a Ring, from a series of Portraits of Wrestlers

Katsukawa Shunko

1785-1790

Color woodcut

Chazen Museum of Art

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]