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絹川谷蔵 中村芝翫・足利頼兼 市村羽左衛門(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1862 · 越嘉 · 2 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock print album of kabuki actor portraits by Utagawa Toyokuni, published in 1862 in Japan by Etsuka for a general audience of theatregoers and collectors. The two pictures show standing kabuki actors in stage costumes against plain backgrounds, with vertical Japanese text panels and a red-and-white circular crest in the upper field. A designer could take the bold patterned kimono motifs, the flat colour blocks, and the vertical cartouche layout as reference for graphic composition.

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