Ichikawa Ebizō IV as Takemura Sadanojō in the Play Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna, Tōshūsai Sharaku, 1794

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Ichikawa Ebizō IV as Takemura Sadanojō in the Play Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna, Edo period (1615–1868), 1794, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink, color, white mica on paper, 14 7/16 x 9 1/3 in. ( x cm), Prints, Tōshūsai Sharaku (Japanese, active 1794–95), In this portrait, one of Sharaku's most famous works, Ebizō Is acting the part of a samurai warrior of tremendous integrity at a moment of insufferable moral conflict. Indeed, in the succeeding moment he will commit seppuku, or suicide by disembowelment, to preserve his honor

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