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Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Akogi Heiji, from the print series Tōsei keshōkagami (Makeup Mirrors of Our Time)

Shunbaisai Hokuei 春梅斎北英

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Japanese man wearing a blue kimono with white and red designs and a brown garment over his shoulder. The man has dark hair in a half bun on top of his head with the rest pulled back. He holds a white umbrella with gold details over his head with his right hand. He looks down to the right with a frown on his face. He is set against a light blue circle. The background is black with thin diagonal white lines running across it. There are four Asian character sets on the image, one on the top left side, one on the right side in the light blue circle and two on the bottom.

Artwork details

Date:
1835
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
446 × 624 px
Museum record:
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