Double-Leaf from Album of Actor Portraits

Shōrakusai

Cleveland Museum of Art

Double-leaf from Album of Actor Portraits by Shōrakusai: The image shows two pages of a book turned outwards. The left page contains a portrait of a man in traditional Japanese clothing. The man has fair skin and black hair styled up in two buns on top of his head. He wears a green robe with a black plaid pattern and a gray robe with a wave design underneath. The background of the portrait is light green. There are Japanese characters on a strip of paper to the right of the portrait. The right page contains Japanese writing in black ink. The pages have a beige background and are bordered with a thin black line. The pages are off-white and have aged with brown spots visible. The image is viewed on a gray background.