足軽良助実ハ善知安方(収載資料名:豊国画帖)
A Japanese woodblock print from the Toyokuni picture album, made by the artist Toyokuni, a Utagawa school printmaker, in Edo-period Japan for a popular audience of theatre fans. The print shows a half-length portrait of a man with a shaved pate and dark topknot, wearing a deep blue robe with a patterned kimono collar and holding a sheet of written paper, with bold outlines and flat colour that suggest the stylised kabuki actor portraits a designer could borrow for graphic poster work.
