Ichikawa Ichizō III as Sankichi

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Portrait within a round mirror depicting actor Ichikawa Ichizō III as Sankichi, a popular hero with bared arm and shoulder displaying a dragon tattoo. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859. Popular heroes protected commoners against oppressive officials who lived beyond the law Mirror set on ground of speckled writing paper: this format was used by Kunisada in the early 1830s and again in the late 1850s Half-length figures

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Size: 2277px × 3336px
Location: Japan
Photo credit: © The Protected Art Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: actor, art, body, dragon, ink, japanese, portrait, print, tattoo, ukiyoe