Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizō (Ichikawa Danjūrō V) in the play The Colored Reins of a Loving Wife (Koi nyōbō somewake tazuna

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizō (Ichikawa Danjūrō V) in the play The Colored Reins of a Loving Wife (Koi nyōbō somewake tazuna), 市川鰕蔵の竹村定之進, Edo period (1615–1868), 5th month, 1794, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper with mica ground, 14 15/32 x 9 3/5 in. ( x cm), Prints, Tōshūsai Sharaku (Japanese, active 1794–95), Sharaku created bold and stylized depictions of Kabuki actors by focusing on bust portraits. He thus could concentrate on the facial expressions and hand gestures of his subjects. In this portrait, one of Sharaku's most famous works, Ebizō (Danjūrō V) acts the part of a samurai warrior of tremendous integrity in a moment of insufferable moral conflict

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