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Kabuki Actor Sakata Hangorō III as an Outlaw

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A man with dark hair and a bare torso, wearing a blue and green plaid cloth wrapped around his waist and a blue and red striped cloth on his back, holds two swords. He stands barefoot on a yellow surface, in front of a beige fence with a plant on top, with a gray background featuring dark vertical lines. Japanese characters are in the bottom-right corner.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1791
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
288 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
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