Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō V, 1785-1792, Katsukawa Shun'ei, Japanese, 1762 - 1819, 12 9/16 × 5 11/16 in. ( × cm) (image, hosoban), Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan, 18th century, A pupil of Katsukawa Shunshō, Shun’ei started designing prints around 1778. Although his work is dominated by Kabuki subjects, both as single-sheet prints and as illustrations for playbills (banzuke), he is also admired for a series of women performing Kabuki dances and for his sumō-e, or pictures of wrestlers

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