Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor with a pickaxe – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor with a pickaxe, a historic print rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Japanese woodblock print of a kabuki actor with a pickaxe
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A pickaxe sets this print apart from the many actor portraits in the gallery. The tool works as a stage prop that signals the character the performer is playing. Kabuki was the popular theater of Edo-period Japan, and ukiyo-e printmakers produced large numbers of actor portraits like this one, which audiences bought as keepsakes of favorite performers and their best-known roles. The record does not name the artist or the play, but the print shows how these images captured costume, stance and stage props for viewers who knew the stories well.
| Original scan | 3,655 × 4,564 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08644_ |
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