Japanese Print "Collection of Shunsen Portraits: Bando Hikosaburo VI as Toneri Matsuomaru (Shunsen Nigao-e Shu: Bando Hikosaburo VI)" by Natori Shunsen
Artist:Natori Shunsen
Title:Collection of Shunsen Portraits: Bando Hikosaburo VI as Toneri Matsuomaru (Shunsen Nigao-e Shu: Bando Hikosaburo VI)
Date:1928
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Source:Scholten Japanese Art
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Description:
an actor with red kumadori make-up holds a large sheathed sword before him; he wears an embroidered white robe decorated with a stylized pine tree, the fabric embellished with karazuri ('blind printing') to convey a heavy brocade and highlighted with white mica; signed at lower left, Shunsen ga with artist's red square seal Shunsen Natori, and publisher's seal Watanabe-ko (Watanabe Shozaburo) below, and with artist's approval seal Natori at lower right, ca. 1928
