Yakusha-e. Kabuki actor.
Anonymous.XIX secoloYakusha-e. Kabuki actor. 1853Polychrome woodcut. Oban:3255x250 mm. The print is presented in the traditional form: glued on thickr paper and surrounded by a large frame in decorated ivory paper. Date seal and double nanushi censor seals: II/1853 (Kaei 6); Fuku & Muramatsu. Good condition.
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Curious scene with a circumspect samurai, probably a centerpiece of a triptych. Yakusha-e (役者絵), often referred to as "actor prints" in English, are Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century. Most strictly, the term yakusha-e refers solely to portraits of individual artists, or sometimes pairs. The print contain a "paired" nanushi seals Fuku – Muramatsu, and the oval zodiacYear/month seal: “1853 Ox Year 2nd Mo.”
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Anonymous.XIX secoloYakusha-e. Kabuki actor. 1853Polychrome woodcut. Oban:3255x250 mm. The print is presented in the traditional form: glued on thickr paper and surrounded by a large frame in decorated ivory paper. Date seal and double nanushi censor seals: II/1853 (Kaei 6); Fuku & Muramatsu. Good condition.
Further Details
Curious scene with a circumspect samurai, probably a centerpiece of a triptych. Yakusha-e (役者絵), often referred to as "actor prints" in English, are Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century. Most strictly, the term yakusha-e refers solely to portraits of individual artists, or sometimes pairs. The print contain a "paired" nanushi seals Fuku – Muramatsu, and the oval zodiacYear/month seal: “1853 Ox Year 2nd Mo.”
