Detailed Illustration Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Portrait Print Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art
Black-framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Black-framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
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Detailed Illustration Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Portrait Print Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art
Black-framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Black-framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
Framed Artwork Traditional Japanese Kabuki Actor Bold Red Ichikawa Sadanji, Narukami Shonin, Natori Shunsen Pulls, Close, Art Print
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Actor Ichikawa Sadanji II as Narukami Shonin - Shunsen Art Print

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Natori Shunsen pulls Ichikawa Sadanji II as Narukami Shonin close enough to count the creases in his frown. Oshiroi white masks the face. Safflower beni pools under each eyelid, and indigo flicks up from the brows toward a sumi-black wig carved hair by hair in the kewari technique.

Look at the mouth. It sags like a dry riverbed. This holy man once caged the rain dragons and starved the land of water, until a princess with a sake cup opened the sky. Two tufts of hair bound in violet cord hang beside his jaw. His robe tears into a thunderclap pattern of pewter and mustard gold.

Shunsen made this shin-hanga Japanese woodblock print in 1920s Tokyo, for publisher Watanabe Shozaburo and his revival of ukiyo-e craft. A blind-embossed grain ripples through the cloth. Behind him, flames in tangerine and jade rehearse the thunder god he is becoming. One of the Eighteen Great Plays of kabuki stares back at you, and it is thirsty.
Origin Story

Natori Shunsen (1886–1960) was the Japanese woodblock printmaker widely hailed as the last master of kabuki yakusha-e, or actor prints. Born in Yamanashi Prefecture to a silk merchant’s family and raised in Tokyo, he trained in Nihonga painting under Kubota Beisen and Hirafuku Hyakusui. Illustrating for the Asahi Shimbun, including novels by Natsume Sōseki, sharpened his eye for the theatre’s shifting faces.

In 1916 publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō began translating his designs into shin-hanga, a partnership that culminated in the celebrated Collection of Shunsen’s Portraits (1925–1929). Here kabuki is held at its most taut: kumadori makeup flaring across a stilled face, a gaze caught between role and performer. Exhibited at the Toledo Museum of Art, his prints carried the ukiyo-e lineage of Edo into the twentieth century with rare psychological candour.
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