髦ノ意休 市川団蔵・揚巻ノ助六 河原崎権十郎・三浦ノ揚巻 岩井粂三郎(収載資料名:豊国画帖)
This Japanese woodblock print sheet, made by the artist Toyokuni in 1862 and published by Hiranoya, is one page from a picture album of kabuki actors shown in their stage roles for a popular Edo-period audience. Three actor portraits show men and a woman in white and patterned robes against a dark blue ground with cherry blossom branches, with a wooden tub or bucket in several frames. A designer might take the flat outlined colour, the bold kimono patterns, and the blossom borders as a model for graphic framing and decorative textile pattern.


