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Look from the broad face and narrow eyes up to the hair ornaments, then down to the red-striped robe and the hand pressed into the black sash.
Women were barred by law from the kabuki stage, so men played the female roles. Here Iwai Hanshirō IV appears as Otoma, a daughter from Inamuragasaki in Kamakura. The cartouche at the upper left names him Yamatoya Tojaku, the name the Art Institute uses as the print’s title. Sharaku signed it at the lower right, and the museum dates it 1794.
Color woodblock print; aiban, nishiki-e · 32.8 × 22.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Yamatoya Tojaku (The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Otoma, Daughter of Ohina from Inamuragasaki in Kamakura) (Yondai-me Iwai Hanshiro no Kamakura Inamuragasaki no Ohina musume Otoma)
- Artist
- Toshusai Sharaku 東洲斎 写楽 Japanese, active 1794-95
- Date
- 1794 (Kansei 6)
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; aiban, nishiki-e
- Dimensions
- 32.8 × 22.7 cm (12 15/16 × 8 15/16 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.