Ichikawa Danjūrō I as Soga Gorō, Okumura Masanobu, ca. 1710

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Ichikawa Danjūrō I as Soga Gorō, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1710, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 10 3/8 x 14 3/4 in. ( x cm), Prints, Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764), The versatile artist Okumura Masanobu portrayed the great actor Ichikawa Danjūrō I (1660–1704) playing the role of a swaggering hero, or aragoto, Soga Gorō—the role that made him famous. Soga Gorō performed one of his courageous deeds during a hunting trip at the foot of Mount Fuji, where he and his brother avenged the murder of their father

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