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Kabuki Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō II as Kajiwara Heiji, in the play Hiragana seisuiki (Records of the Battles between the Minamoto and Taira Clans in the Japanese Syllabary)

Gigadō Ashiyuki

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Japanese woodblock print of a man's head and chest in a rectangular frame. The man has dark hair pulled up into a bun on top of his head and wears a purple headband. His eyebrows are slanted and dark. He also wears a black robe with white and purple designs on it. The man holds a pipe in one hand. The frame around his portrait has a peach-colored background with white flowers and pink leaves. There is a long red banner with black Japanese characters on the top right and a small beige rectangle with black Japanese characters on the bottom left. A brown branch protrudes from the bottom.

Artwork details

Date:
1827
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
447 × 624 px
Museum record:
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