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Look at the red lines around his eyes and his tense backward glance, then follow the robe’s pattern of clouds and zigzags down the narrow sheet.
Besides close-up heads, Sharaku made full-length figures on narrow hosoban sheets like this one, showing the actor Ichikawa Yaozō III as Fuwa no Banzaemon Shigekatsu. The actor’s name is written at the upper right, and he holds a long sword upright in its red scabbard. In the same year Utagawa Toyokuni I also portrayed Yaozō in this role, for his series Portraits of Actors on Stage.
Color woodblock print; hosoban · 31.6 × 14.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Art Institute of Chicago: Ichikawa Yaozo lll in the Role of Fuwa no Banzaemon Shigekatsu
- Cleveland Museum of Art: Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Gorobei, the Fish Seller from Sanya
- Art Institute of Chicago: Tachibanaya: Ichikawa Yaozo III as Fuwa Banzaemon, from the series "Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)" (Utagawa Toyokuni I)
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- Museum title
- Ichikawa Yaozo lll in the Role of Fuwa no Banzaemon Shigekatsu
- Artist
- Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽 Japanese, active 1794-95
- Date
- 1794
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hosoban
- Dimensions
- 31.6 × 14.7 cm (12 1/2 × 5 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Ukiyo-e c. 1600–1900
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.