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足軽良助実ハ善知安方(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

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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.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library