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The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II Holding a Smoking Pipe

Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a Japanese man wearing a traditional kimono, standing in a formal pose. He has dark hair pulled back into a small topknot. His kimono is black, orange, and yellow with a fan pattern. The kimono has wide sleeves and a sash around his waist. He holds a smoking pipe in his right hand and extends his left hand palm down. He is barefoot. The background includes a beige upper section with a branch of orange leaves extending from the upper left to center. The lower section of the background is a lighter brown color. There are Japanese characters written vertically on the right side and horizontally on the bottom left.

Artwork Details

Date
1762–1819
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
288 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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