Double-Leaf from Album of Actor Portraits

Double-Leaf from Album of Actor Portraits by Shōrakusai: The image shows a traditional Japanese woodblock print. The left page features a male actor dressed as a samurai, wearing a black robe with gray fur trim and a patterned haori; he has a white face and red eyebrows. The actor holds a sword in his right hand and has a second sword on his back. A blue vertical paper strip on the right side contains Japanese characters. The right page is blank with a thin black border. The background of both pages is beige with a thin black border around the edges. The pages have a worn, aged appearance.

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Dimensions: 900 × 628 px
Museum Record: View original

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Double-Leaf from Album of Actor Portraits

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