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弁天小僧菊之介 市村羽左衛門・南郷力丸 中村芝翫(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1862 · 伊勢兼 · 2 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock print album of kabuki actor portraits, drawn by Toyokuni (Utagawa Toyokuni III) and published by Iseya Kanehachi in Edo in 1862 for a popular audience. The two pictures show actors in stylised poses against patterned backgrounds, with a striped kimono in one and a checked kimono in the other, offering a designer strong examples of bold graphic pattern, flat colour blocks and expressive costume design.

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