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(役者絵)(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1861 · 広幸 · 1 picture

A Japanese woodblock print of kabuki actor portraits from 1861, made by the artist Toyokuni and published by Hiroyuki, likely for a collector's album of theatre prints. Three framed actor heads appear on a mottled grey-beige ground: a bald-pated man in a round red-rimmed medallion, a woman in a blue-black roundel with a red collar, and a bearded man in a green star-shaped frame. Designers can borrow the bold circle and star cut-out framing, the flat saturated palette of red, indigo, green and ochre, and the stylised, expressive faces.

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