Artist: Ōta Masamitsu (太田雅光)

Print: Leading Figures of the Modern Stage in Their Famous Roles, No. 11: Hanayagi Shōtarō (花柳章太郎) as Taki no Shiraito (瀧の白糸) or The Waterfall's White Thread

Dates: 1954,created

Dimensions: 11.0 in,16.7 in,Overall dimensions

Medium: color woodblock print

Inscription:

Signed: Masamitsu (雅光)
Printer's mark: Miyake Koshodo shosatsu
三宅耕書堂摺摺刷
Number - embossed in lower right: 153 [of 200]

Related links: Portland Art Museum; Waseda University;

Physical description:

Hanayagi is depicted here as Taki no Shiraito (The Waterfall's White Thread), an itinerant female entertainer in Izumi Kyoka's play and film, Giketsu kyoketsu.

Related entities

Ōta Masamitsu (太田雅光) (artist)
Hanayagi Shōtarō (花柳"章太郎) (actor)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
modern prints (shin hanga - 新版画) (genre)
Banchōrō (番蝶楼) (publisher)
Showa era (昭和時代) (genre)